Becoming Ellen
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Ellen Homes is done being invisible. Well, sort of.
Living with her closest friends, Temerity and Justice, has helped her step out of the shell of invisibility she once hid away in. She still seeks refuge in solitary time and observing from afar, but she has pushed herself to open up to others in ways that bring her unexpected happiness.
But when a terrible bus crash upends her normal routine, Ellen finds herself on a whirlwind crusade for the unseen and downtrodden. Only this time, helping others—including two young children with no one else to turn to—will mean facing a pain from her past that she’s long tucked away.
Picking up where Invisible Ellen left off, Becoming Ellen returns us to the touching, poignant, and compassionate world of Ellen Homes as she learns how to navigate the world she has decided to become a part of.
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Shari Shattuck. (2015). Becoming Ellen. Penguin Publishing Group.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Shari Shattuck. 2015. Becoming Ellen. Penguin Publishing Group.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Shari Shattuck, Becoming Ellen. Penguin Publishing Group, 2015.
MLA Citation (style guide)Shari Shattuck. Becoming Ellen. Penguin Publishing Group, 2015.
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- Returning in the bestselling tradition of Jennifer Weiner, Shattuck brilliantly illustrates the deep friendship between two absolutely unforgettable women in this touching yet funny novel.
Ellen Homes is done being invisible. Well, sort of.
Living with her closest friends, Temerity and Justice, has helped her step out of the shell of invisibility she once hid away in. She still seeks refuge in solitary time and observing from afar, but she has pushed herself to open up to others in ways that bring her unexpected happiness.
But when a terrible bus crash upends her normal routine, Ellen finds herself on a whirlwind crusade for the unseen and downtrodden. Only this time, helping others—including two young children with no one else to turn to—will mean facing a pain from her past that she’s long tucked away.
Picking up where Invisible Ellen left off, Becoming Ellen returns us to the touching, poignant, and compassionate world of Ellen Homes as she learns how to navigate the world she has decided to become a part of. - reviews
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Ellen and her blind best friend, Temerity, again take on the wrongs of this world, letting neither emotional scarring nor physical disability stand in their way. Ellen Homes is beginning to recover from the traumas of her upbringing within the dark underbelly of the foster-care system. Shattuck (Invisible Ellen, 2014) picks up the threads of Ellen's tale with her second novel, exploring how Ellen's friends and the universe conspire to pull her out of the shadows and into the light of social relationships. A horrific bus crash sets in motion a constellation of new crises for Ellen to reluctantly resolve. The crash forces Ellen into contact with not only a young girl (who will avoid struggles with the foster-care system, thanks to Ellen), but also a Detective Barclay, who could prove helpful, if only Ellen would bring herself to speak openly with him. Further, one of Ellen's co-workers is likely selling drugs, another has discovered neither she nor her girlfriend can conceive a child, and a runaway with a bone-shaking cough has taken shelter in the basement of Temerity and Justice's apartment building. Perhaps most frightening of all, Temerity's friend Rupert seems to have asked Ellen out on a date. The prose is still heavy, like the weight of Ellen's past burdens; we are reminded repeatedly that Ellen tries hard to stay invisible, that Ellen knows how kids get ensnared within the system, that Ellen uses food to comfort her roiling emotions, that Ellen finds social interactions exhausting. Yet the more Ellen is drawn out of her own head, the more the twists and turns of her life drive energy into the tale. Ellen turns her skill at seeming invisible to good use, bringing to light what others want hidden. A tale of kindhearted, hesitant heroism, with a little vigilante justice.COPYRIGHT(2015) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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The physically and emotionally scarred young woman whom readers met in Invisible Ellen (2014) has made progress. She has lost some weight, has had surgery to correct her facial disfigurement, and even though her first instinct is still to hide from people to protect herself, now shares an apartment with her blind friend, Temerity, a violinist, and Temerity's brother, Justice. Always being on her guard has made Ellen a keen observer, which helps her to uncover an illegal drug operation at the Costco in which she works the night shift as a cleaner. And her own terrible childhood has made her acutely sensitive to children in distress, including Seth, 12, whom she finds fending for himself in a basement, and Lydia, who ends up in foster care after her mother is severely injured in a bus accident. Despite the underlying dark themes, the novel is upbeat overall as Ellen continues to take steps to open herself up to the world. Readers will warm to Shattuck's brave heroine.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2015, American Library Association.)
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