Forever... by Judy Blume5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() She continues to receive constant death threats from right-wing zealots who claim she’s poisoning young minds. That’s the reason why they’re so complicated for people.’įrom the 1980s until the present day, her books have been banned in many American libraries recently, she said that a rise in intolerance in the US has led to a ‘much worse’ epidemic of book banning than she experienced 40 years ago. As superfan Lena Dunham says in the documentary: ‘Judy’s books speak about the unspeakable. ![]() Like so many of her books, Forever encapsulates the turbulence of that strange, often exhilarating but also terrifying time.īut writing so honestly about the things teenagers desperately want to know about hasn’t been applauded in all quarters. ![]() ![]() The period just before we reach adulthood is often filled with turmoil, and most of us face some dark moments. It features other weighty issues, too, including a teenage boy struggling to work out his sexuality, a suicide attempt and a teen pregnancy. And it feels modern in its feminism: Katherine is a strong-minded young woman who doesn’t do anything she doesn’t want to. Ever aware of her responsibilities to her audience, she sends Katherine to a family planning clinic to get contraception. The result is a totally realistic, utterly unpreachy love story, in which Blume depicts Katherine’s first sexual experiences as initially painful, then highly enjoyable. ![]()
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