madeleinen 's review for:

On the Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta

5.0

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective

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pure literature told in the form of semi-feral teens in Australia. made me sob uncontrollably when I read it for the first time at 15, and again today. a giant of YA contemporary lit that hopefully never fades into obscurity, because everyone deserves to have the chance to read this. I definitely don’t want to be Taylor Markham, but I do want what she has.