Daisy Alpert Florin has written an incredible coming of age story about the life of a college student. We are watching the life of Isabel Rosen as she traverses life as a student in her last year of college. We are there with her in her mind seeing the experience from her viewpoint.
My Last Innocent Year was a great novel. It brings back the to mind the college years and how we had to navigate so many things at the same time. There were the classes and studying, balanced with time to party and socialize. Dating and finding the right social circle to be apart of.
Then there are always the dangerous pitfalls, that this book deals with, goin g back to a dorm room with a guy and what to expect. Is it a date, or just friends? How far should you take the relationship sexually and today is saying no good enough. Is the sex consensual or forced. Then there are the professor student complications of sexual relationships. There are so many nuances to work through.
Florian puts inside th mind of Isabel Rosen as she navigates all these different relationships and feelings in her head and heart. Balancing her desire to find love and her need to fit in with her girlfriends.
She comes from a very different background than many of the other student at her New Hampshire college and she is trying to work out the logistics of fitting in. Her New York City, Lower East Side childhood living and working in a Appetizing store and growing up Jewish, makes her a minority at this school.
Well written and very entertaining.
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