Description

In this delightful new novel by best-selling author Elizabeth Berg, a girl falls in love -- and learns how sorrow can result in an awareness of joy.Katie, the narrator, has moved to Missouri with her distant, occasionally abusive father, and she feels very much alone: her much-loved mother is dead; her new college is unaccepting of her; and her only friends fall significantly lacking being perfect buddies. She meets Jimmy, when she accidentally falls through the ice while skating. He's fine, considerably more than she, and married, but she's enthralled. As their relationship unfolds, so too does Katie's understanding of the suffering and strength first love can bring.Beautifully created in Berg's amazing style, Pleasure College shows the rising pleasure of actual love, the deep despair one can experience when it goes unrequited, and the resistance of wish that'll not let's let go.