Girl Goddess #9: Nine Stories by Francesca Lia Block

Author:Francesca Lia Block [Block, Francesca Lia]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Juvenile Fiction, Girls & Women, Social Issues, General, Adolescence
ISBN: 9780064471879
Publisher: HarperTeen
Published: 1998-02-06T08:00:00+00:00

believed that she could never see her parents, Herby and Molly again. All she could do was send them cards on holidays. She missed them very much—her father with his violin, her mother with her roses, like people in a Chagall.

But Izzy finally had her true body. And she had Anastasia. Even though, ever since the change, Anastasia had grown quieter and quieter, as if she were afraid of letting out Izzy’s secret if she spoke.

Izzy and Anastasia moved to Manhattan where dragons live and Anastasia gave birth to a baby girl. Izzy felt as if she had carried the baby too, as if she had gone through the labor along with Anastasia. Izzy thought that instead of giving their child one of their last names, they should create a new one for all of them. Anastasia, who had become even quieter, afraid of giving away the secret to the baby, wrote down, “Budd” because of Izzy’s name, Rose. Tuck Budd.

“Do you hate us?” Izzy asked when the story was over.

Then I couldn’t help it, I started to cry too. I could hear Herby’s violin playing inside of me and it made me cry even more. I said good-bye in my heart to Calvin or Clay or Griffin. I thought about

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