{"id":141169,"date":"2018-02-26T10:00:22","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T15:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=141169"},"modified":"2018-02-22T09:59:09","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T14:59:09","slug":"sarah-reviews-the-upside-of-unrequited-becky-albertalli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=141169","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Reviews: The Upside of Unrequited – Becky Albertalli"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"For anyone who has ever felt just slightly out of place in a world where society dictates how we must look, what we must like, and who we must love in order to fit in,\u00a0The Upside of Unrequited<\/em>\u00a0by Becky Albertalli breaks the mold. For Albertalli\u2019s protagonist, Molly Peskin-Suso, this is a life she is painfully familiar with. As a self-proclaimed \u2018fat girl\u2019, Molly has lived a life of unrequited crushes on many boys but has lacked the self-confidence to follow through on any of the 27 crushes she has accumulated in her lifetime. But things start to change when Molly gets a new job and finds herself befriending the Tolkien loving, renaissance-fair-going Reid Wertheim. <\/span><\/p>\n

The Upside of Unrequited<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0is a story for any young person who has ever struggled to find where they belong in a world that tells them they have no place in a world of \u2018normal\u2019. Albertalli challenges her readers to define normal by writing a family that is not the standard \u2018Mom and Dad plus kids\u2019. Instead the reader gets a glimpse into a life where two women of different ethnicities are raising their children to be better than those that came before them. Albertalli doesn\u2019t shy away from the topics of homophobia or racism, making sure that her readers understand that just because society deems you lesser than, it doesn\u2019t mean that\u2019s the truth. <\/span><\/p>\n

Beyond covering some of today\u2019s issues, Albertalli gives the reader a love story that in this librarian\u2019s honest opinion is better than Romeo & Juliet<\/em>. With The Upside of Unrequited<\/em> you get all of the drama of a Shakespearean play without the gratuitous death (or having to suffer through Old English). So, if you find yourself sheltering inside during a snowy day and you\u2019re wondering what you should be reading, look no further than Becky Albertalli\u2019s newest novel.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For anyone who has ever felt just slightly out of place in a world where society dictates how we must look, what we must like, and who we must love in order to fit in,\u00a0The Upside of Unrequited\u00a0by Becky Albertalli breaks the mold. For Albertalli\u2019s protagonist, Molly Peskin-Suso, this is a life she is painfully…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":141170,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sarah-reviews","category-ya"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Upside-of-Unrequited.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6V6sR-AIV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141169"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141174,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141169\/revisions\/141174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/141170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}