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Donorboy
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Rosalind is mourning the deaths of both her moms, and Sean is working on his own issues—the only thing they have in common is a little DNA
When both of Rosalind’s mothers die, she moves in with the donor father she never knew. Fifteen, angry, and feeling completely alone, Ros refuses to speak to her biological father, Sean, sharing her feelings only with her journal. But through a series of emails and text messages, Ros and Sean slowly get to know each other.
Sweet, comic, honest, and moving, Donorboy is the story of two people who seem to have nothing more than genes in common stumbling toward a shared future. Brendan Halpin has crafted a thoroughly modern take on love, family, and figuring it all out.
When both of Rosalind’s mothers die, she moves in with the donor father she never knew. Fifteen, angry, and feeling completely alone, Ros refuses to speak to her biological father, Sean, sharing her feelings only with her journal. But through a series of emails and text messages, Ros and Sean slowly get to know each other.
Sweet, comic, honest, and moving, Donorboy is the story of two people who seem to have nothing more than genes in common stumbling toward a shared future. Brendan Halpin has crafted a thoroughly modern take on love, family, and figuring it all out.
Author
Brendan Halpin
Brendan Halpin was a high school English teacher for ten years before penning his first novel. He is the author of How Ya Like Me Now and Forever Changes, as well as several novels for adults. He lives in Massachusetts. www.brendanhalpin.com
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This was one of those books that practically fell off the shelf and into my arms while at the Library. I flew through it in under a day and found it charming, sad and funny. It's a rare writer that can construct a novel entirely out of e-mails, IM conversations and journal entries and have the construct work FOR rather than AGAINST him.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A great look at 'family' in today's world.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5reminds me a lot of Feeling Sorry for Celia b/c the format for both is all emails/letters/transcripts. The book is about a girl whose moms (lesbians) die and she ends up with her father who has never been involved in her life until now (he was a sperm donor, hence the title). I laughed a lot while reading this book.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I can't believe I enjoyed a book written mostly as emails and a journal. But it's that good. And funny.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Rosalind Butterfield doesn't exactly know what to do with herself. You see, her two moms just died in a freak auto accident and now she's been sent to live with her remaining biological parent- Sean the sperm donor. He was friends with her moms, but never really involved in her life, and her moms wanted him to have custody. So here she is. In a new place with a 35-year-old bachelor she doesn't know, failing school because she no longer sees the point in doing homework, and alienating her friends because they keep asking how she's doing (don't they get that things will NEVER be FINE again?).The book is told through journal entries, emails, interviews, and other random communications. You get two major points of view- Ros's as she deals with losing her family and figuring out how to start over, and Sean's as he is thrust into parenting a 14-year-old girl and struggles to find his way with that. The book won an Alex Award, which is given to adult books with great appeal for teens, but I'd recommend it for older high school and adults. I think it would be interesting to see how a teen would react to it because I suspect that a teen would identify more with Ros, while I identified more with Sean.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5One of the best teen books I've read in awhile! I can't believe this was his first novel (although not his first book). I think Rosalind's voice really rang true. Having lost my mother at a similar age I think a lot of teens will relate to how Rosalind copes with her grief. Also, I heard buzz that there is talk of a movie. Cool. ALK 11/17/06
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5When both of Rosalind's moms are killed in an unlickly foodstuffs related car accident, she is sent to live with her biological father, Sean. Sean is a single 35 year old man with emotional issues, who donated sperm and now is going to try and raise his "daughter." The two learn from each other as they try to coexist and cope with grief.This is a very interesting book, with two very different main characters. It contains a lot of controversial topics, including lesbian mothers, sperm donors, and quite a bit of harsh language. But the truly valuable aspect to this book is that it is written completely in text messages, IM's, journals, emails, and other electronic media. It would be a very interesting form study for older young adults who can see past the language and touchy topics.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Ros had two mothers until they were killed in an accident involving a truck full of turducken. In an interesting custody twist, Rosalind goes to live with the sperm donor - her biological father she's never met before. Hilarity, drama, and emotional development ensue. Told in journal entries by Ros and e-mails from Sean to Ros and to his friend pleading for parental help.Good crossover.