My first 5 star read of the year! This book may not be for everyone. Very sexually charged and deals with the issue of child abuse. Rather dark, however, the main character 13 year old Jarisa walks you through her story in away that is unsettling yet she seems very capable of dealing with these harsh issues in her life.
She has horrible parents! Turning to adult men for the attention she is in great need of, who take in turn take advantage. She is a stronger girl than she gives herself credit for. It was very hard not to get wrapped up in this story on an emotional level. I carried the feelings the book created in me after I had put the book down. Towelhead was very well written the author does a wonderful job of balancing the awful circumstances with honesty and humanity.
From Amazon:
Thirteen-year-old Jasira wants what every girl wants: love and acceptance and the undivided attention of whoever she's with. And if she can¹t get that from her parents, then why not from her mother's boyfriend, or her father's muscle-bound neighbor, Mr. Vuoso? Alicia Erian¹s incandescent debut novel, Towelhead, will ring true for readers who remember the rarely poetic transition from childhood to young adulthood. Jasira is a creature of contradiction: both innocent (reading romantic intentions into the grossest displays of lust) and oddly clear-sighted, especially when it comes to the imbalance of power, and the things we do for love. When her mother exiles her to Houston to live with Jasira's strict, quick-to-anger Lebanese father, she quickly learns what aspects of herself to suppress in front of him. In private, however, she conducts her sexual awakening with all the false confidence that pop culture and her neighbor's Playboy magazines have provided.
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