Melina Marchetta’s Jellicoe Road
Somewhat recently, the NYT books section did a list of dark academia books and this was on it, which a) pleased me because more people should know about this book, and b) confused me, because dark academia brings to mind magic and murder, and this book isn’t dark in that way at all—it’s just very sad! But also hopeful. It’s the story of a (depressed) girl at a boarding school in Australia, dealing with the “wars” the school has with the locals and a troop of cadets, and also piecing together the story of her past and a group of kids who were at the school almost twenty years earlier. But also it has my favorite thing in stories, which Marchetta does so well: being vulnerable and opening yourself up and making friends and people caring about each other. One of my faves.
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