Did she just say that? Did she just do that? Oh yes she did! Some of her highpoints include calling her cousin O'Snot (Osnat), one of the local kids Moron (it's Moran, actually), and starting a fight at a disco.ĭeadbeat/absentee Dads are a tough thing to write or, at least, I'm tough on them being done realistically, especially because I don't think someone changes from distant to TV-Dad for no good reason. It's also very funny, as Amy makes so many goofs that I almost shut my eyes in embarrassment for her. This is a story about finding family (Amy connecting with her father, Ron, and her Israeli relatives), accepting and forgiving other people (Ron has let her down), romance (the cute guy, Avi), religion (Amy isn't Jewish, but her father and his family are), and discovering a new country. She has to make the best of this situation and the cute guy she meets helps. I love a good self-righteous angry teen Elkeles puts you right in Amy's shoes, so you are just as angry at the world as she is.Īmy is so angry that she pretty much turns off everyone she meets, earning the tag American bitch. She's mad at her mother, who is involved with a new guy mad at her father for being an absentee Dad mad at both of them for forcing her to change her summer plans and fly to Israel. The Good: Amy is in a snit over her forced trip to Israel.
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