{"id":5061,"date":"2015-04-10T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=5061"},"modified":"2020-07-12T06:36:30","modified_gmt":"2020-07-12T11:36:30","slug":"i-for-infandous-by-elana-k-arnold-book-review-mom-daughter-share-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=5061","title":{"rendered":"I for Infandous, by Elana K. Arnold (book review) – mom & daughter share everything?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"bookDreaming of mom as a mermaid<\/a> who loved a wolf,
\nCreating fantabulous art pieces from discarded items<\/a>,
\nOne misstep away from homelessness…<\/p>\n

Sephora has always loved her so-beautiful mother, disliked her own name, and wondered why her dad abandoned mom before her birth.<\/p>\n

Snag this March 2015 book at your local library<\/a> or favorite independent bookstore<\/a> (those aren’t referral links; never any monetizing links on BooksYALove!) to see how Sephora copes with a fairy tale ending<\/a> that’s anything but charming.<\/p>\n

What kept secrets should remain secret?
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/strong>: Infandous \/ Elana K. Arnold. Carolrhoda Lab, 2015. \u00a0 [author site<\/a>]\u00a0 [publisher site<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n

My book talk<\/strong>: Eclipsed by her beautiful mom, California teen artist Sephora steps out of her comfort zone with guys and finds the fairy tales she loved as a child transformed into something much Grimmer.<\/p>\n

Retaking summer school geometry so she can graduate next year, Sephora swelters over her found-art pieces in a storeroom of the cruddy apartment she shares with her single mom and looks half-heartedly for a part-time job (she’ll visit her aunt and family in Atlanta soon, so really what’s the point in looking?)<\/p>\n

Skateboarding and surfing are good ways to forget how almost-broke they are, to forget that older guy Felix from spring break, to try to be someone else like in the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm (Disney lied).<\/p>\n

Why can’t she and mom go back to sharing everything?
\nWhy is her mom so interested in the young surfer guy down the hall?
\nWhy isn’t working on her art taking her mind off Felix and stuff?<\/p>\n

The Grimm versions of several fairy tales appear between sections of Sephora’s story, reminding us that rarely are their endings happily-ever-after but often as shocking as this book’s conclusion. (One of 6,000 books recommended on www.abookandahug.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dreaming of mom as a mermaid who loved a wolf, Creating fantabulous art pieces from discarded items, One misstep away from homelessness… Sephora has always loved her so-beautiful mother, disliked her own name, and wondered why her dad abandoned mom before her birth. Snag this March 2015 book at your local library or favorite independent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,30],"tags":[10,90,22,7,105,11,45,20,5,18,44,39,49,184,56,15,9,21,73,35,33,3,6,8],"class_list":["post-5061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-legends","tag-a2z","tag-abandonment","tag-behavior","tag-beliefs","tag-california","tag-communication","tag-competition","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-family","tag-friendship","tag-love","tag-memories","tag-mothers","tag-reading","tag-relationships","tag-school","tag-self-image","tag-summer","tag-surprises","tag-survival","tag-teens","tag-travel","tag-us-author"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5061"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11576,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5061\/revisions\/11576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}