Close Enough to Touch | Overview
Close Enough to Touch presents a brief journey from loss to recovery and renewal narrated by Matt Moran, a seventeen- year-old high school junior in the Chicago suburbs, whose girlfriend, Dory Gunderson, has died suddenly and unexpectedly of an aneurysm. In Matt's present-tense narrative of events covering several weeks in the spring of his junior year, Peck reveals a young adult confronting not only the difficulties of loss and grief but also questions and problems involving individual identity, social class, and alienation. The narrative follows Matt as he moves from withdrawal,...
[The entire page is 443 words long]
Join eNotes
Over 3,500 study guides, question and answer forums, literature criticism, reference content, and much more!
Navigate
Related Topics
Tell a friend about Close Enough to Touch at eNotes.
