Being with Henry | Literary Qualities

While Brooks's first YA novel, Two Moons in August, has a conventional chapter arrangement, her second novel, Bone Dance, is divided into two parts, each part having its own separately numbered chapters. With Being with Henry, Brooks continued the idea of dividing the novel into parts. This time using three. She describes her structural decisions as coming out of a sense of desperation so that the books work. Being with Henry's opening section, "Dreams and Lies" consisting of just four chapters, deals with Laker's time first with Audrey, then with Audrey and...

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