The control and hurt was something difficult to stomach, and the final scene was terrifiying. I am white, so I don't presume to know what black teen girls face, but this friendship seemed unhealthy from the start. Farrah puts Cherish to the ultimate test, to see if Cherish truly loves Farrah. Later, Farrah begins to realize that not all is what it seems but she isn't sure whether Cherish knows what is happening.
When Farrah and Cherish become friends in the 4th grade, they share a moment of pain and control that Cherish's parents admire. However, Cherish was adopted by white parents, and they have gone out of their way to care for her "blackness" in a white world. I was sickened by some of the scenes in this novel, and the control one person held over the other.Ĭherish and Farrah are two black teens from wealthy families. This is a horror novel, plain and simple. Told in Farrah's chilling, unforgettable voice and weaving in searing commentary on race and class, this slow-burn social horror will keep you on the edge of your seat until the last page"- … ( more)
But soon everything begins to unravel when the Whitmans invite Farrah closer, and it's anyone's guess who is really in control. As strange things start happening at the Whitman household-debilitating illnesses, upsetting fever dreams, an inexplicable tension with Cherish's hothead boyfriend, and a strange journal that seems to keep track of what is happening to Farrah-it's nothing she can't handle. She might trust them-if they didn't think something was wrong with Farrah, too.
A troubled Farrah manipulates her way further into the Whitman family but the longer she stays, the more her own parents suggest that something is wrong in the Whitman house. When her own family is unexpectedly confronted with foreclosure, the calculating Farrah is determined to reassert the control she's convinced she's always had over her life by staying with Cherish, the only person she loves-even when she hates her. With Brianne and Jerry Whitman as parents, Cherish is given the kind of adoration and coddling that even upper-class Black parents can't seem to afford-and it creates a dissonance in her best friend that Farrah can exploit. Her best friend, Cherish Whitman, adopted by a wealthy white family, is something Farrah likes to call WGS-White Girl Spoiled. "Seventeen-year-old Farrah Turner is one of two Black girls in her country club community, and the only one with Black parents.
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