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Loading... Scout's Honorby Dori Ann Dupre
None No current Talk conversations about this book.  ErrantRuminant | Mar 13, 2020 |   The novel begins when Scout is 14. She is a real tomboy, playing baseball with her best friend and looking forward to going back to camp where she can see the older camp counselor that she has had a crush on for years. She is a happy and carefree child. What happens at camp that summer, changes her and her outlook on life for years to come. This is the story of how one thing can change our view of the world and most importantly of ourselves. I loved this novel and it was hard to believe that it was this author's first novel. I predict some great books in the future from her. (I received a copy of this book from the author for a fair and honest review.) (  ) susan0316 | Mar 6, 2016 | no reviews | add a review
In Haddleboro, North Carolina, Scout Webb is a 14 year-old kind, spirited small town southern girl and a tomboy much like her namesake, the young narrator from her mother's favorite book. With both her name and her Christian faith deeply woven into the fabric of her identity, Scout always felt like she had a lot to live up to - she was the kind of girl who made her parents proud.It's August 1983, and Scout is playing on a summer baseball team with Charlie Porter, her best friend since Kindergarten. More than anything, she is looking forward to her last few weeks at Camp Judah, a Christian camp near the Catawba River. She can't wait to see her big crush "Brother Doug," the thirty-two year old camp lifeguard who has watched her grow up each summer since she was seven years old. But after afateful few days and one catastrophic event during her last day at the camp, Scout will be changed forever.Written through multiple narrators over the course of twenty years, this story follows Scout's personal struggles as a freshman away at college in Raleigh and later as an overworked single mother approaching middle age, where she is forced to confront the causes of her own quiet suffering, the consequences of her actions and why even the eternal love and devotion of just one true friend can't save her. A story of a self, lost...a self, loathed...and a self, rediscovered...it examines the harsh and cruel ways in which otherwise well-intentioned and decent people treat each other...even those they claim to love, but even more so...ultimately, how we treat our own selves. No library descriptions found. |
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It was also a book that is more than a bit disturbing in its brutal examination of the human condition. It is a book about the human condition from one, well several, perspectives. And like so many books that examine things so closely, we really get a good look at our own failings as human beings.
This book centers on a young lady growing up probably a bit too early, but who also finds her own strength in the process. The folks that surround her are fully realized and multi-dimensional and you care for all of them, even all the ones making dreadful mistakes. They are you. They are all of us.
One thought that ran through my head as I read this was that... one could easily retitle this book to "Life is Complicated".
Read "Scout's Honor". It's a great debut novel. (