Chelovek Kevolek reviewed If You Come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson
Review of 'If You Come Softly' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
Even while anticipating the resolution, it was a gut-punch.
181 pages
English language
Published Sept. 18, 1998 by Putnam's.
If you come softly
4 stars
(1 review)
After meeting at their private school in New York, fifteen-year-old Jeremiah, who is black and whose parents are separated, and Ellie, who is white and whose mother has twice abandoned her, fall in love and then try to cope with people's reactions.
Subjects
- Interracial dating -- Fiction
- African Americans -- Fiction
- Family life -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction
- Schools -- Fiction
- New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction