Rage

Description:

A National Book Award Finalist offers an intense portrait of an abusive relationship.Johanna is steadfast, patient, reliable; the go-to girl, the one everyone can count on. But always being there for others can't give Johanna everything she needs--it can't give her Reeve Hartt.Reeve is fierce, beautiful, wounded, elusive; a flame that draws Johanna's fluttering moth. Johanna is determined to get her, against all advice, and to help her, against all reason. But love isn't always reasonable, right?In the precarious place where attraction and need collide, a teenager experiences the dark side of a first love, and struggles to find her way into a new light.From the Hardcover edition.

subjects: Fiction,  Orphans,  Family problems,  Sisters,  Homosexuality,  Child abuse,  Lesbians,  Dating violence,  Juvenile Fiction,  Dysfunctional families,  Children's fiction,  Child abuse, fiction,  Homosexuality, fiction,  Sisters, fiction,  Violence, fiction,  Orphans, fiction,  Family life, fiction,  Women, fiction