Love and Other Carnivorous Plants
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Publication Year
2018
ISBN
9780316436724
Pages
352 pages
Genre
realism
Format
novel
Item Type
Fiction
Annotation
Freshman year at Harvard was the most anticlimactic year of Danny's life. She's failing pre-med and drifting apart from her best friend. One by one, Danny is losing all the underpinnings of her identity. When she finds herself attracted to an older, edgy girl who she met in rehab for an eating disorder, she finally feels like she might be finding a new sense of self. But when tragedy strikes, her self-destructive tendencies come back to haunt her as she struggles to discover who that self really is.
Grade Level
9-12
Lexile Measure
890L
Diversity Topics
LGBTQ (Gender and Sexuality); Disability and Health; Gay/Lesbian; Mental illness; Addiction; lesbian; lesbian adult; eating disorder; treatment program; substance abuse
Main Character
adult female
Race/Ethnicities
White
Family Formation
mother and father
LGBTQ+
lesbian female
Awards
Booklist Book Review Stars, 2018
Booklist Editors' Choice: Books for Youth, 2018 Fiction for Older Readers
Rainbow List, 2019 Young Adult Fiction
Keywords
future; expectations; college; Harvard; struggle; friendship; coping; party
Diversity Impact
direct
STARS Citation
Gonsalves, Florence, "Love and Other Carnivorous Plants" (2018). Diverse Families. 1904.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/1904