They meet at a New Year's Eve party, start dating exclusively, say "I love you," have sex, graduate high school and (spoiler alert) break up before heading off to college at the end of summer. Discovering that sent me rifling through my bookshelf for my copy, dog-eared and broken-spined from the many re-readings it endured during my own days as a lovestruck, confused teenager, to see what holds up and what doesn't, as well as try to figure out why, after forty years, it is still one of the most frequently challenged and banned books in the U.S.įorever, ICYMI, is ostensibly the story of Katherine Danziger, a pretty average teenager growing up in New Jersey, and her first serious romantic relationship with a fellow high school student, Michael Wagner. There are a lot of 40th birthday celebrations happening in 2015: Saturday Night Live Jaws(as well as that "different set of jaws") Backstreet Boy Brian Littrell (of whom there is certainly an increasingly ugly portrait tucked away in an attic somewhere - I mean, those abs!).īut the 40th birthday that surprised me the most was Forever, Judy Blume's YA opus about first love, burgeoning sexuality and penises named Ralph, first published in 1975.
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