coming-of-age Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/coming-of-age/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Tue, 17 Feb 2026 16:54:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-books-on-table-2-150x150.jpg coming-of-age Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/coming-of-age/ 32 32 38398750 Lucky Girl https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/02/lucky-girl/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/02/lucky-girl/#respond Tue, 17 Feb 2026 08:40:50 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=19514 What is life like when you have an extraordinary gift? When you’re a child with an ability that goes far beyond your years and you have the determination to see it grow? For Lucy, the ability was dance and her ambition so fierce it takes her to the heights of commercial success in Lucky Girl, […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/02/lucky-girl/feed/ 0 19514 Crux by Gabriel Tallent https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/02/crux-by-gabriel-tallent/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/02/crux-by-gabriel-tallent/#comments Wed, 04 Feb 2026 08:33:32 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=19492 Life in a nowhere town in the Mojave Desert should be torture for teens, but Daniel and Tamma are rock-climbing freaks and the area is filled with challenging boulders. Best friends since childhood they spend every waking moment not in school out on the rocks, but as Crux opens it is senior year. Daniel is […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/02/crux-by-gabriel-tallent/feed/ 2 19492 What Kind of Paradise https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/07/what-kind-of-paradise/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/07/what-kind-of-paradise/#respond Tue, 22 Jul 2025 07:40:27 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=19242 Jane has lived her entire life in a 700 square foot cabin near Bozeman, Montana; her contact with the modern world significantly limited. Her father is stern, but loving, a Luddite zealot who raves against technology in any form and writes copious screeds that no one reads, except Jane. Until he realizes that, with her […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/07/what-kind-of-paradise/feed/ 0 19242 The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/02/the-life-cycle-of-the-common-octopus/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/02/the-life-cycle-of-the-common-octopus/#comments Wed, 19 Feb 2025 08:47:20 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=19007 Monday I shared a literary novel I loved and now I’m back with another. The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus is the witty, contemporary story of two friends and their freshman year at the University of Edinburgh. Alice and Penelope both have their reasons for wanting to leave Canada and go to this particular […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/02/the-life-cycle-of-the-common-octopus/feed/ 4 19007 Behind the Scenes at the Museum https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/02/behind-the-scenes-at-the-museum/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/02/behind-the-scenes-at-the-museum/#respond Fri, 07 Feb 2025 08:16:40 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18971 Ruby Lennox has no intention of waiting to be noticed. She is the front and center, the axis in the familial wheel that is Kate Atkinson’s Behind the Scenes at the Museum. The novel begins with her announcing her own conception when her father drunkenly impregnates her mother. From this instant on we journey with […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/02/behind-the-scenes-at-the-museum/feed/ 0 18971 Swift River: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/09/swift-river-a-novel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/09/swift-river-a-novel/#respond Thu, 19 Sep 2024 07:48:33 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18661 Swift River is both the title of Essie Chambers’ debut and the town where the novel is set. It’s about Diamond Newberry, a 16-year-old girl who stands out, but not for her flashy name or sparkling personality. She’s morbidly obese and ever since her father disappeared 7 years ago she’s the only Black person in […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/09/swift-river-a-novel/feed/ 0 18661 All the Colors of the Dark https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/07/all-the-colors-of-the-dark/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/07/all-the-colors-of-the-dark/#comments Wed, 10 Jul 2024 07:13:48 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18546 When 13-year-old Patch sees a girl being abducted he acts without thinking and rushes the kidnapper. The girl escapes, but what follows changes Patch’s life and is the foundation for Chris Whitaker’s new novel All the Colors of the Dark. Patch and everyone he knows is changed by his heroic act in this opus saturated […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/07/all-the-colors-of-the-dark/feed/ 21 18546 River East, River West https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/04/river-east-river-west/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/04/river-east-river-west/#comments Thu, 04 Apr 2024 07:01:12 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18340 In the search for fiction that takes me out of my own experiences Aube Rey Lescure’s River East, River West was just what I wanted. Alva and her mother Sloan have always been partners, the two of them against the world. A daunting task made even more so by the fact that they live in […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/04/river-east-river-west/feed/ 2 18340 The Things We Didn’t Know https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/03/the-things-we-didnt-know/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/03/the-things-we-didnt-know/#respond Wed, 13 Mar 2024 07:23:56 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18275 When Andrea is 9-years-old she finds herself and her little brother Pablo uprooted from their home in Woronoco, Massachusetts and left in a small Puerto Rican village with an aunt they’ve never met. All because their mother hates living in their small 1950s factory town in America and is lonely. This unsettling turn of events […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/03/the-things-we-didnt-know/feed/ 0 18275 All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/01/all-my-rage-by-sabaa-tahir/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/01/all-my-rage-by-sabaa-tahir/#respond Tue, 09 Jan 2024 08:46:01 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18147 Salahudin and Noor have been best friends since the first grade when Sal was the only person who could communicate with Noor, newly arrived from Pakistan. This friendship, set in a small California town, is the cornerstone of All My Rage, a powerful novel about coming-of-age in a place where you’re always the outsider. When […]

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