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Depuis la mort de son père, Macy s'est réfugiée dans sa coquille. Et ce n'est pas sa mère qui trouvera le temps et les mots pour lui parler. Alors, quand son petit ami Jason s'éloigne et passe l'été au " Camps des cracks ", Macy se retrouve livrée à elle-même... Et prête pour des aventures hilarantes, chaotiques, bourrées de rencontres inattendues : voici Della, Greg... et Tim, un artiste prometteur au passé trouble, qui déboulent sur le chemin de la jeune fille. Macy aurait-elle trouvé en Tim un coeur blessé comme le sien ? En jouant avec lui au jeu de la vérité, elle mettra au jour les petits mensonges qui plombent son quotidien. Histoire, tout simplement, de réapprendre à vivre.
Afficher en entierGrade 7 Up–Macy, 16, witnessed her father's death, but has never figured out how to mourn. Instead, she stays in control–good grades, perfect boyfriend, always neat and tidy–and tries to fake her way to normal. Then she gets a job at Wish Catering. It is run by pregnant, forgetful Delia and staffed by her nephews, Bert and Wes, and her neighbors Kristy and Monica. "Wish" was named for Delia's late sister, the boys' mother. Working and eventually hanging out with her new friends, Macy sees what it's like to live an unprescripted lifestyle, from dealing with kitchen fires to sneaking out at night, and slowly realizes it's not so bad to be human. Wes and Macy play an ongoing game of Truth and share everything from gross-outs to what it feels like to watch someone you love die. They fall in love by talking, and the author sculpts them to full dimension this way. All of Dessen's characters, from Macy, who narrates to the bone, to Kristy, whose every word has life and attitude, to Monica, who says almost nothing but oozes nuance, are fully and beautifully drawn. Their dialogue is natural and believable, and their care for one another is palpable. The prose is fueled with humor–the descriptions of Macy's dad's home-shopping addiction are priceless, as is the goofy bedlam of catering gigs gone bad–and as many good comedians do, Dessen uses it to throw light onto darker subjects. Grief, fear, and love set the novel's pace, and Macy's crescendo from time-bomb perfection to fallible, emotional humanity is, for the right readers, as gripping as any action adventure.
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