No, you create something more filling, something more sustaining. Making lemonade out of life’s lemons was nonsense. Not when I grew up with parents who are of the when-life-hands-you-lemons-you-bake-lemon-bars variety of people. I’ve never really had the luxury of staying in the Square of War and Weeping-a place of self-pity and anger. Unimaginable heartbreak that lands you in the Square of War and Weeping. Just the idea of my final conversation with Dom was enough to make me want to war and weep against the memory of it.Sometimes life packs a particularly hard punch. She is a co-founder of readergirlz, the online book community for teens, and lives in the Seattle area with her two children.Ĭhen applied the Test to A Blind Spot for Boys and reported the following: From page 69: “You are standing in Huacaypata, the Square of War and Weeping.” Justina Chen is the acclaimed author of young adult novels including A Blind Spot for Boys, Return to Me, North of Beautiful, and Nothing But the Truth (and a few white lies), which won the Asian Pacific American Award for Youth Literature.
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