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Calling Me Home

by Laurin Becker Macios

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A planned journey, an unexpected turning point

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A planned journey, an unexpected turning point

Jenny Campbell begins her post-graduation trip with a carefully mapped route and an equally definite picture of her future. Travel through Greece, the Balkans, Rome, and Ireland unsettles that certainty, while the novel’s verse form frames her movement between new places and memories. Back in the United States, an unexpected pregnancy—and her decision to end it—puts her plans in a new light. The story connects a European backpacking journey with questions of identity, choice, and how one consequential experience fits within a larger life.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teens and young adults interested in coming-of-age stories
  • Readers drawn to travel-centered fiction set across European countries
  • Readers interested in stories addressing abortion and personal choice

Themes

Coming of ageTravel and independenceIdentity and future plansAbortion and personal choice

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Book overview

A beautifully crafted YA novel in verse that follows a 17-year-old girl's backpacking trip across Europe--filled with awe, danger, friendships, and something like love.

Jenny Campbell, recent high school graduate, has spent her unrooted childhood planning for a future she can control: NYU, marketing major, big-city life. But first, a carefully mapped solo backpacking trip through Europe.

Only, the trip doesn't stay on the map. As she travels between countries and memories, Jenny begins to loosen her grip on the life she's scripted. She works at a bookshop in Greece, treks through the Balkans on overnight trains, falls in something-like-love in Rome.

At summer's end, Jenny returns to the States ready to launch her New York City future. And then, she learns she's pregnant. Choosing to end her pregnancy, Jenny tries to keep her plans--but finds she may no longer be the person meant to live them.

Calling Me Home is part classic travel bildungsroman (you can almost taste the ouzo in Greece and feel the wind of Ireland) and part meditation on how abortion is just one piece of a person's story.
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