![]() ![]() And over the years she’s kept a lot of his secrets. Vera’s spent her whole life secretly in love with her best friend, Charlie Kahn. King goes deeper to prick her readers to life. Highly recommended YA fiction for audiences that want more than a romance story or a token vampire. POV’s of Charlie, Vera’s dad, and even the inanimate Pagoda pop lively into the narrative offering unique insights. PIVD is told in the first-person with past and present cleverly interwoven. In PIVD, King tackles the stuff modern society likes to ignore, the very stuff that we should never ignore–wife beating, child abuse, rape, alcohol abuse and gambling. King describes “…a stinging sensation that never goes away.’ To me, that’s Vera’s saving grace–her ability to connect with anyone, even the rubbish humans in her life despite the sting. Poor Vera struggles to come to terms with her mother’s abandonment and the aftermath of the meaningless death of her best friend, Charlie. ![]() Vera’s mother took off for Las Vegas with her podiatrist boyfriend when Vera was twelve. But Vera is a sassy, strong female protagonist who is so sensible she could literally run the small town from whence she hails. PIVD is Vera Dietz’s story–avoidance of her destiny which she mistakenly takes to be her parents’ past–Loserdom–pregnant at seventeen like her mother and a drunk like her father. A.S.King tears open teen issues in her stinging, harsh novel ‘Please Ignore Vera Dietz” (PIVD). ![]()
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