Back in the city, Ellie's inner thoughts overlap the rhythm of orthodox Jewish life. Ellie's desire for Lindsay horrifies her but, moth-like, she can't resist Lindsay's flame. Into her focus on nature and learning to swim properly whirls Lindsay, unsupervised, daring and beautiful.
How to explain this to Neshama?įifteen-year-old Ellie Gold, daughter of orthodox Jews, can't wait to escape 1987 Toronto's stifling summer heat for the quiet stillness of a lake-front cabin rented by her beloved grandmother, easy-going, pragmatic Bubbie. They ground me, like kelp, thick and bulbous, rooted to the ocean floor, undulating in the waves. When I pray, the words reverberate through my chest and esophagus, filling my head. "Can you even prove that God exists? Can you?" "So rest on Shabbos, but don't follow stupid rules on how to rest. Garburetors are work? Who does the cooking in all those crazy ways on Shabbos? Why would you believe any of it?" How does that make you a better person? I can't believe how many generations of crazy men believe all that crap. I'm so sick of a mean God who insists on stupid stuff like only eating animals with split hooves. The Torah says gay people are wrong, and they're all sinners. "As much as you can stop being male or female. "What about them?" Neshama jams her hands into her pockets.
We stop at the intersection at Lawrence Avenue. "Wait, go back to the part about, you know, the gay people." Jess begins to imagine becoming friends with Quinn, and when she begins to write down a new story for Quinn, she risks turning her back on the opportunities that are right in front of her – new friends, new interests, a fresh beginning.CM Magazine: Gravity. Gradually Jess learns that Quinn’s life is not what it’s supposed to be. As she cleans, she finds troubling clues – including, tucked behind the bed, a diary. Jess wonders how a girl with a perfect life – private school, horseback riding – could have wrecked such a beautiful room. She gets a gig cleaning a gorgeous country home and discovers the trashed bedroom of the teenaged daughter, Quinn. Jess wavers between anger at her father and fear that poverty and addiction may be her fate, too, and she decides she will do whatever it takes to avoid it. Jess cleans houses to save money for college, because her dad - unemployed and off the wagon yet again - has moved the two of them out of the city into a decrepit borrowed tent and trailer. Will she become so wrapped up in someone else’s life that she misses a chance to create her own? Jess finds a secret diary and imagines what it would be like to be a girl who has everything.
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