All This Heavenly Glory by Elizabeth Crane

Author:Elizabeth Crane [CRANE, ELIZABETH]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780316085175
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2009-09-26T04:00:00+00:00

Notre Monde

THE GIRLS MEET in seventh-grade French. Technically, they’ve already met, the year before when they were both new, but they were in different homerooms and Jenna was absent a lot, prompting much gossip and speculation about mono. So it might be more accurate to say that the girls are thrown together in seventh-grade French, where Charlotte Anne is doing marginally better than Jenna (the fact is, it’s the beginning of the year and she’s coasting on a stellar accent), and Madame Goldstein suggests they study together after school.

Jenna Ritter doesn’t know what to think about C.A. Byers and is mostly concerned that this need for academic help will only serve to elongate the shadow cast by her older brother, Eric, destined to discover a miracle cure for like, everything.

Charlotte Anne thinks this is a really, really bad idea.

Charlotte Anne is not a big fan of Jenna Ritter.

Charlotte Anne thinks Jenna Ritter doesn’t have it together.

Charlotte Anne Byers, age twelve, has a big thing about having it together. (Charlotte Anne’s mother does a lot of talking about people having it together, and how great it is that her daughter has it together since she says please and thank you and doesn’t do drugs, which is all well and good, except for that a) there’s plenty of time and b) this doesn’t account for all the other ways one might not have it together, especially when they sort of appear to have it together on the outside but on the inside seriously don’t, or are perhaps currently establishing the foundations for how they will not have it together in the future.) Lots of kids in their grade don’t have it together at all, mostly in the form of them smoking pot in Central Park after school (a social group identified as “parkies”) and having sex with whoever, which Charlotte Anne thinks is both disgusting and indicative of severe mental troubles. Charlotte Anne’s assessment of Jenna’s severe mental troubles is based not on drug use but on her mysterious sixth-grade absence (which C.A. does not attribute to mono at all but speculates that Jenna just didn’t feel like it, which gets off onto another tangent because sixth was Charlotte Anne’s first year in private school, and she’d come into the school with some very fixed ideas about snobbery, namely that rich kids, which she was not, kind of get to do what they want, which includes not going to school if they just don’t feel like it, which in Jenna’s case was not in fact what was going on, even though Charlotte Anne was sort of on the right track at least insofar as Jenna was probably mildly depressed). This plus Jenna’s habit of wearing the same outfit (a long-sleeve maroon Lacoste shirt and a knitted cap) pretty much every day causes Charlotte Anne to diagnose Jenna with an advanced type of hang-up that she doesn’t think she wants to know more about. An argument could be made that Jenna is still

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