Plum

"You wish to never see a plum again in your life. You wonder why your family waits for the plums to fall to pick them up. You wonder so many things. You think, When I am an adult, I will never have a fruit tree. I will never be like this."Written entirely in second person, Plum follows J as she grows up with her older brother under an alcoholic father and a complicit mother, and the measures J takes to build her own life-from parenting her own parents to camming from her bedroom-as she...
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"You wish to never see a plum again in your life. You wonder why your family waits for the plums to fall to pick them up. You wonder so many things. You think, When I am an adult, I will never have a fruit tree. I will never be like this."Written entirely in second person, Plum follows J as she grows up with her older brother under an alcoholic father and a complicit mother, and the measures J takes to build her own life-from parenting her own parents to camming from her bedroom-as she stumbles into adulthood and must figure out how to build a family full of the love she deserves. For fans of Snuggie Bain and Sarah Rose Etter's The Book of X, Plum explores the daily toll of trauma and the limits of love, and introduces an astonishing new talent.