Darkness Before Dawn (2001)
Darkness Before Dawn is a 2001 juvenile fiction book written by Sharon M. Draper.
Keisha Montgomery has already buried too much grief. An eighteen-year-old senior class president in Sharon Draper's Hazelwood High trilogy, she is still reeling from the suicide of her ex-boyfriend when she catches the eye of Jonathan Hathaway, a twenty-three-year-old track coach whose attention feels like rescue. Draper writes for teenagers without flinching, tracing how loneliness and flattery can blur a young woman's sense of danger. The closing volume of the trilogy, it treats its subjects, depression, consent, and self-worth, with plainspoken honesty rather than melodrama, and trusts its readers to sit with hard feelings.
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What is Darkness Before Dawn about?
Keisha Montgomery has already buried too much grief. An eighteen-year-old senior class president in Sharon Draper's Hazelwood High trilogy, she is still reeling from the suicide of her ex-boyfriend when she catches the eye of Jonathan Hathaway, a twenty-three-year-old track coach whose attention feels like rescue. Draper writes for teenagers without flinching, tracing how loneliness and flattery can blur a young woman's sense of danger. The closing volume of the trilogy, it treats its subjects, depression, consent, and self-worth, with plainspoken honesty rather than melodrama, and trusts its readers to sit with hard feelings.
When was Darkness Before Dawn published?
Darkness Before Dawn was published in 2001.
Who made Darkness Before Dawn?
Darkness Before Dawn was written by Sharon M. Draper.
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Sharon M. Draper's clear-eyed teen realism sits beside Laurie Halse Anderson's novel Speak, another unflinching story of a young woman finding her voice, and the film The Perks of Being a Wallflower, which handles grief and first love with similar tenderness. Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give continues the tradition of honest Black YA fiction.