As always, Dessen wrote superior supporting characters, and I loved getting to know them too.
Colie felt real to me – I personally identified with so many aspects of her personality, and I was just hoping for her to find herself and appreciate the person she truly was. So, really, Keeping the Moon is about Colie’s journey to understand, accept, and even love herself when she never had before. So it’s difficult for her, at first, to adjust to the fact that people – Mira, Norman, Morgan, and Isabel – actually want to spend time getting to know her… and they actually seem to like her! She’s never really had any friends, no boy has ever been interested in her, and her own mother doesn’t spend a ton of time connecting with her. Colie and her mom used to be very overweight, and even though they’ve lost it and now live healthy lives, Colie still feels ugly and sad inside.
What I love about Sarah Dessen’s book is that there’s always this aspect to them of the main character growing as a person. Although Colie has always felt shy and insecure about herself, this may finally be the summer for her to step out of her comfort zone, make her first true friends, and start to figure out who she really is.
Upon arriving at Mira’s, Colie meets Norman, a teenage houseguest of Mira’s, and Morgan and Isabel, the girls who work at the local cafe where Colie ends up taking a summer job. Title: Keeping the Moon Author: Sarah Dessen Release date: SeptemPublisher: Speak Pages: 240 Genre: Young Adult Fiction Source: Personal copyĬolie Sparks is nervous about this upcoming summer – she has to spend two months with her eccentric aunt Mira while her fitness-instructor mother tours the country teaching people about how to lose weight and get fit.
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