Reading
Bella wants to feel less of everything – less worry about her parents, who have just separated, less grief for her late grandmother, and less pain over losing her great love, Dylan. Alcohol seems to help – sometimes in company, but often in secret. As we enter Bella’s emotional world, we see the destructive pull this widely normalized drug can exert. A sensitive and powerful novel about a teenage girl and her struggle with alcohol addiction.
With Kathleen Glasgow
With Lola Li Bothe (Pre-Program)
Moderated by Toby Ashraf
Read by Homa Faghiri
Talk in English without translation; reading passages in German.
Booking Number 1403
»The Glass Girl« was translated from English into German by Barbara König.
The book was selected by members of the reading club “Die LesArtigen” as part of the “Jugend kuratiert” project.
In cooperation with LesArt, the Berlin Center for Children’s and Young Adult Literature, and the Working Group for Young Adult Literature (Arbeitskreis für Jugendliteratur e.V.). The event took place as part of the peer-to-peer project “Literanauten,” funded by the Federal Ministry of Education, Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women, and Youth, the PwC Foundation, and the Waldemar Bonsels Foundation.