When Jorie wakes up in the loft bed of a college boy she doesnтАЩt recognize, sheтАЩs instantly filled with regret. What happened the night before? What led her to this place? Was it her fatherтАЩs infidelity? Her motherтАЩs 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.
With┬аPoisoned Apples: Poems for You, My Pretty┬аand┬аAsk Me How I Got Here,┬аChristine Heppermann established herself as a vital voice in thought-provoking and powerful feminist writing for teens. Her┬аpoetry is surprising, wry, emotional, and searing.┬аWhat Goes Up┬аis by turns a scorchingly funny and a deeply emotional story that asks whether itтАЩs 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 wonтАЩt soon forget.
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.