Hmmm. I really am unsure about this book on so many levels that I don't really know where to begin. I'm sure you've read it, but in case you haven't a girl gets brutally raped and murdered and the book is from her point of view from a frighteningly bizzare version of a Heavenly waiting room. I would seriously not do a thing with this book based solely on that. Teenagers have enough to worry about without worrying that when they day they are going to be in a ghostly limbo town for an unspecified amount of time where they can stumble across lethargic ghost-people. Heaven really doesn't sound a whole lot better.
I wouldn't teach it. It's got sex, penises, graphic murder, rape, a crappy Heaven, and just a whole myriad of stuff that would get me fired and make me flare into violent blushes whenever the class mentioned them. There is a sad beauty to the book though, despite the fact that I didn't like it. Like being in just the right place at the right time to watch the last leaf fall off a tree just before winter. I wouldn't re-read it and I am hurriedly trying to delete everything the book said about Heaven and the Afterlife from my mental Heaven and Afterlife data banks. But in a twisted, kind of sickly sad way, I'm glad I read it.
I guess that is all I have to say. I'm oddly at a loss for words on this one. I'm also oddly petrified that I will be unsuspectingly possessed by some chick who wants to get physical with my boyfriend. Best to just stop thinking about it.
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