What Goes Up
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When Jorie wakes up in the loft bed of a college boy she doesnโt recognize, sheโs instantly filled with regret. What happened the night before? What led her to this place? Was it her fatherโs infidelity? Her motherโs seemingly weak acceptance? Her recent breakup with Ian, the boy who loved her art and supported her through the hardest time of her life?
As Jorie tries to reconstruct the events that led her to this point, free verse poems lead the reader through the current morning, as well as flashbacks to her relationships with her parents, her friends, her boyfriend, and the previous night.
Withย Poisoned Apples: Poems for You, My Prettyย andย Ask Me How I Got Here,ย Christine Heppermann established herself as a vital voice in thought-provoking and powerful feminist writing for teens. Herย poetry is surprising, wry, emotional, and searing.ย What Goes Upย is by turns a scorchingly funny and a deeply emotional story that asks whether itโs possible to support and love someone despite the risk of being hurt. Readers of Laura Ruby, E. K. Johnston, Elana K. Arnold, and Laurie Halse Anderson will find a complicated heroine they wonโt soon forget.
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Christine Heppermann is the author of Poisoned Apples: Poems for You, My Pretty, which received five starred reviews and was named to five best of the year lists in 2014, and Ask Me How I Got Here. She lives with her husband and two daughters in Highland, New York.
