Jessie reviewed If You Come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson
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5 stars
Beautiful and heartbreaking.
Jacqueline Woodson: If you come softly (1998, Putnam's)
181 pages
English language
Published Sept. 18, 1998 by Putnam's.
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.
Beautiful and heartbreaking.
Even while anticipating the resolution, it was a gut-punch.