DECEMBER 20th to JANUARY 3rd, 2013
HATING HEIDI FOSTER
by JEFFREY BLOUNT
SYNOPSIS:
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As Hating Heidi Foster begins, Mae McBride stands by on a riverbed watching as her mother offers up the ashes of her father to the river’s fast moving current. She thinks of the great loss in her life and the cause of that loss. She thinks of Heidi Foster, her best friend since second grade.
Heidi Foster is home alone listening to music through her ear buds when fire sneaks into her bedroom and she has nowhere to run but her closet. There she waits for the painful end she knows is about to happen, but she is saved by Eddie, the father of her best friend. Heidi makes it out of the burning house, but Eddie does not. When Mae finds out, she blames Heidi for not being smart enough to get out of the house. She blames her father for putting Heidi ahead of her. She blames her friends for taking Heidi’s side. She begins to unravel amid that blame and her uncontrollable and atypical anger.
At the same time Heidi is beset by guilt, falls into depression and stops eating properly. She is wasting away physically and emotionally while waiting for Mae to let her back into the friendship that she misses so dearly.
Mae, consumed by her hatred of Heidi, the confusion regarding her father’s motives, the perceived desertion of her friends and her mother’s grief, loses more and more of herself.
What could possibly bring these two teenagers back to each other? A miracle?
From the Author:
As Hating Heidi Foster begins, Mae McBride stands by on a riverbed watching as her mother offers up the ashes of her father to the river’s fast moving current. She thinks of the great loss in her life and the cause of that loss. She thinks of Heidi Foster, her best friend since second grade.
Heidi Foster is home alone listening to music through her ear buds when fire sneaks into her bedroom and she has nowhere to run but her closet. There she waits for the painful end she knows is about to happen, but she is saved by Eddie, the father of her best friend. Heidi makes it out of the burning house, but Eddie does not. When Mae finds out, she blames Heidi for not being smart enough to get out of the house. She blames her father for putting Heidi ahead of her. She blames her friends for taking Heidi’s side. She begins to unravel amid that blame and her uncontrollable and atypical anger.
At the same time Heidi is beset by guilt, falls into depression and stops eating properly. She is wasting away physically and emotionally while waiting for Mae to let her back into the friendship that she misses so dearly.
Mae, consumed by her hatred of Heidi, the confusion regarding her father’s motives, the perceived desertion of her friends and her mother’s grief, loses more and more of herself.
What could possibly bring these two teenagers back to each other? A miracle?
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It doesn’t say the girls ages, but I think that Mae just needs time & maturaty.
Time and a heartfelt apology
lkish77123 at gmail dot com
her friends getting them back together
I enjoyed it 🙂
forgiveness
As an apology
time and an apology
time and friends
caden at pineland.net
Time and forgiveness
love and sensitivity
Forgiveness
Ouch-maybe the ability to forgive
Forgiveness – that’s the most important thing <3
thinking of one another
vmkids3 at msn dot com
Love will bring them back together 🙂
Time and forgivness.
melissalucky43@yahoo.com
I think other friends will bring them back together.
Her mother and her healing and loving again
mightynaynay(at)cs.com
I think that prayer is what can change this relationship.
I am going to say forgiveness, or Heidi saves Mae’s life or Mae’s Mother’s life.
the only answer is forgiveness
love
I would love to read this book!
Their love for each other
I think love will above all else
Time and change.
Forgiveness