anderson picks a person who could be normal, but isn't.
Review by: normal girl normal story (almost) Personally, I found the novel rewarding to read, although it isn't for everyone. Laurie takes someone from the middle, a middle on the social scale from a middle-ish class family and brought a powerfull, i can do anything, cinderella story to the shelf. Defying the law most teen realistic (or not so realistic) fiction follows, the story either has to be someone really popular or really not. Laurie Halse Anderson's novel Prom brought a unique look to a typical story. I wish I had had a grandmother like that. I did, however, like the idea of a grandmother who would devise a dreamy pink creation that would make a girl feel and look spectacular. I am willing to admit that I missed something, something extremely important. In my world, people acknowledge that what they do have consequences. My world, after many years of experiencing it, doesn't work that way. The author doesn't seem to understand that people who do things like this don't easily substitute. He wanted her enough in his life that he was doing all kinds of things to bring her into it. He did more to aid his character, except for the scenes immediately before the prom in which I think the author was diligently trying to prove a weird case, trying to prove that he was just a jerk, which I didn't buy. The fact that other characters were denigrating his persona is just not enough.
My take is that if I were writing this story, somehow TJ would have worked out and have been something great for Ashley. The scenes before the "prom" seemed forced, to make him a bad guy. Instead, he showed up in a suit to take Ashley on a grand date that he was semi-paying for and yet again he was not the good guy. She obviously felt like he should be a bad guy, a fall guy, but he did something miraculous and never received the accolades.
I wonder if the writer wasn't misguided in having TJ help to reconstruct the kitchen. Even now, I don't know why everyone was so against TJ. There were hints as to why he might be a bad guy, but I felt that these were negated by his helping her father finish the kitchen. I couldn't connect with Ashley and I didn't understand her relationship with TJ nor her break-up with him. This was a semi-engaging read, but nothing spectacular as I didn't feel connected to any of the characters.
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