With multiple shredded relationships and friendships, there’s more than enough angst to go around, as Marcie rages against the decisions her parents have made, as well as her own. Romantic and bittersweet, Love and Leftoversby Sarah Tregay captures one girls experience with family, friends, and love. The formal variety of Tregay’s poems creates an immediacy that should maintain readers’ interest and sympathy for Marcie. Seven months later Marcie returns to Idaho, and things are more confusing than ever. In Fan Art, Sarah Tregay, the author of the romantic Love and Leftovers, explores the joys and pains of friendship, of pressing boundaries, and how facing our fears can sometimes lead us to what we want most. When she begins a heated relationship with popular athlete J.D., cheating on Linus, her sensitive musician boyfriend back home, she questions her nonphysical relationship with Linus (“I wonder/ if my boyfriend is gay./ That would explain/ why he never once/ took off/ my/ clothes”). Falling in love is easy, except when it’s not, and Jamie must decide if coming clean to Mason is worth facing his worst fear. Marcie is resentful until she realizes the move could be a chance to remake herself, escaping the image of a “Leftover” who doesn’t fit in.
Sophomore Marcie Foster unwillingly moves from Idaho to her mother’s childhood home in New Hampshire after her father leaves her mother for a male bartender. When people should go to the books stores, search instigation by shop, shelf by shelf, it is really. Poems, IM conversations, and emo love songs make up Tregay’s emotionally turbulent debut novel in verse. Love And Leftovers By Sarah Tregay Chuaiore.
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