--- product_id: 25886120 title: "The Memory Jar Paperback – April 8, 2016" brand: "elissa janine hoole" price: "₹ 2671" currency: INR in_stock: true reviews_count: 6 category: "Books" url: https://www.desertcart.in/products/25886120-the-memory-jar-paperback-april-8-2016 store_origin: IN region: India --- # The Memory Jar Paperback – April 8, 2016 **Brand:** elissa janine hoole **Price:** ₹ 2671 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Memory Jar Paperback – April 8, 2016 by elissa janine hoole - **How much does it cost?** ₹ 2671 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.in](https://www.desertcart.in/products/25886120-the-memory-jar-paperback-april-8-2016) ## Best For - elissa janine hoole enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted elissa janine hoole brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description From School Library Journal Gr 8 Up-Seventeen-year-old Taylor and her boyfriend have been in a snowmobile accident that has left him in a coma, and she can't remember what happened. What's worse is she's pregnant and she was just about to break up with him-now what is she going to do? She doesn't exactly want him to die, but she does want him to forget. Taylor struggles to keep her secret while she tries to remember what happened on that fateful night. Taylor doesn't have the greatest life with her stressed-out mom on a very small income. Her one hope is to go to college and make something of herself to get out of Sterling Creek, MN, a small town almost in Canada. Will Taylor have the baby and forget her dreams or have an abortion? Will Scott survive or even come out of the coma? Hoole creates a believable, relatable cast of characters. Told in first person with multiple narrators and chapters that jump forward and backward in time, the mystery is well-crafted and compelling. With short chapters and sentences, the tension builds to make readers wonder what is going on. This thoughtful psychological tale will leave readers on the edge of their seats until the last page. ­VERDICT Hoole's third YA novel is reminiscent of Gayle Forman's books and will be popular with teens.-Jane Hebert, Glenside Public Library District, Glendale Heights, ILα(c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. Read more Review "An intricately crafted story of teen pregnancy helmed by a bold, achingly real protagonist determined to decide her own fate." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"Heartbreaking and hopeful." --Booklist (starred review)"Honest and sometimes heart-breaking, The Memory Jar is about first love, first loss, and how one moment can change the course of a lifetime." --Suzanne Young, New York Times best-selling author of The Program series Read more See all Editorial Reviews ## Images ![The Memory Jar Paperback – April 8, 2016 - Image 1](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/410h8IzwHVL.jpg) ![The Memory Jar Paperback – April 8, 2016 - Image 2](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51URLx380rL.jpg) ![The Memory Jar Paperback – April 8, 2016 - Image 3](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/31B13sBw-1L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ with the perfect college boyfriend *by C***N on June 7, 2016* Taylor is seventeen and in high school, with the perfect college boyfriend, and a future waiting ahead of her - marriage, a baby, maybe studies.Except none of this is what Taylor wants, and she feels powerless to move away from what she has to what she truly desires for herself.The story starts after a snowmobile crash that has left her injured, and her boyfriend Scott in a coma. She's pregnant. Scott proposed to her, and all she wanted to do was break up with him. She's in a hospital with the comatose body of some she might have loved once, a secret ring in her pocket, and a mountain of guilt.How did the accident happen - Scott was always so careful. And what is she going to do about this pregnancy? As far as Taylor can see, her future is over, and the world is closing in around her, crushing out everything she wanted for herself. She dreamed of becoming a cardiologist and poet, not a seventeen-year-old single parent, or married to someone she's ultimately not connected to "because of the baby."Taylor's therapist has her start a memory jar, where she fills in the scraps she can remember from her time with Scott, and from the black hole that is the accident. More things come to complicate her already messed-up life - stories about her at school, strange antiabortion texts filled with gruesome images from a private number, a mysterious college "girlfriend' called Kendall whom Scott had never mentioned. And there's Joey, Scott's younger brother, who seem to know all her secrets and believes that Scott didn't deserve her.The narrative voice is painfully authentic - Taylor veers from empathetic to selfish to scared to depressed to hopeful. She's a girl just discovering what it is she wants from her life and the world, trapped and guilty in a relationship she is no longer sure she wants, a baby that seems an echo of herself (she feels that her birth ruined her mother's life and dreams), and facing a myriad futures none of which are remotely close to the one she would choose for herself.Ultimately The Memory Jar is a book about a teenage girl trying to claim power over her own life and body - tired of having her world directed by the needs and decisions of her boyfriend, her mother, her circumstances. It's about learning to face guilt and truth, about female friendships, and the sickening, terrifying powerlessness that many modern teenage girls face over their themselves as they are manipulated by those around them - subtly, obviously, carelessly. There are some gloriously poignant moments where Taylor figures things out for herself, and writing that is deceptive in its clean and simple poetry. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Five Stars *by A***A on April 3, 2018* Loved this book. Powerful and moving. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ It's worth it. *by A***R on April 29, 2016* It's a really good book with great characters and interesting story. The part about getting so cold was totally believable, good writing. 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