Fiction Presentation Defense

We are a world at war. In these abundant times, it’s easy for anyone – including and perhaps especially teens – to lose themselves in pop culture’s innumerable offerings, from music to clothes or MySpace dramas and reality TV. how i live now is a startling story, told in the raw voice of a teenager shocked out of her insular urban world into a gritty and uncomfortable new realm where the only thing she has any control over is her attitude. Rosoff’s literary skill is evident in the breadth of experience presented in this spare book set in the enemy-occupied English countryside. Daisy lives through some typical teen experiences - first love, illicit sex, family troubles - starkly cast upon her desperately tenuous and endangered new home. Rosoff's tale is a significant contribution to the body of literature that serves to keep readers aware of how quickly our precariously arranged, deceptively reassuring cushy lives can crumble, thus reminding us to be attentive to the things that truly matter.