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Viola in Reel Life

by Adriana Trigiani

A filmmaker’s eye on an unexpected first year

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AlbakiReads Editorial

A filmmaker’s eye on an unexpected first year

Viola Chesterton arrives at a boarding school in South Bend after leaving Brooklyn, her best friend, and familiar routines behind. She brings a video camera and hopes of becoming a filmmaker, initially using them as an anchor in an unfamiliar place. Her three roommates and the school challenge the expectations she arrived with, making the year a story of adjustment, new relationships, and letting experience extend beyond the camera’s frame. The boarding-school setting gives Viola’s transition a clear shape, while her filmmaking ambitions connect her changing perspective to the way she records the world around her.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teens and young adults interested in boarding-school stories and adjusting to a new environment.
  • Readers who enjoy stories about friendship, roommates, and forming new connections.
  • Those drawn to characters with creative ambitions, especially filmmaking.

Themes

Adjustment and changeFriendship and new relationshipsFilmmaking and creative ambitionExpectations versus experience

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Book overview

I'm marooned.
Abandoned.
Left to rot in boarding school . . .
There are four reasons why Viola Chesterton knows she'll never survive her first year at Prefect Academy: Her parents have heartlessly dropped her there against her will She has to leave behind her Best Friend Forever And Always, Andrew . . . and replace him with three new roommates who, disturbingly, actually seem to like it there "There" is South Bend, Indiana—Sherbet-Colored Sweater Capital of the World and about as far away from her hometown of Brooklyn, New York, as you can get
At least she has her video camera and her dreams of being a filmmaker to keep her busy. But boarding school, and her roommates, and even the Midwest are nothing like she thought they would be, and soon Viola realizes she may be in for the most incredible year of her life. But first she has to put the camera down and let the world in.
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