THE TEEN TRILOGY
AUTHOR: MONISHA K. GUMBER
TEEN TRILOGY is a series of 3 books revolving around the lives of three teenage girls who are childhood friends. Author has dedicated each book to one of the three friends venturing into their side of the story. Each book explores different issues a teenager faces; first one focuses on dealing Body Image and Low self esteem, Second on Education pressure, divorce, and abusive relationships and the third book focuses on child abuse.
Teen Trilogy can act as a self help book for struggling teenagers who can difficulty talking about their feeling to others and realizing there are others out there, who knows exactly what you are going thorough. The book is easy to read with very less use of “fancy” words making it easier for any average teenage to read. The issues that our society has depicted as “sab ke sath hota he” (everyone goes thorough it), but how these everyday issues have different impact on innocent mind is very well projected in this novel. Title of the last book “Dolly won’t play” is very impressive as you read though it you realize it the play of works between the lead characters “Dolly” and her deep seeded want to become like the doll gifted by her beloved uncle. The Illustrations in these books are gives bonus points to them, they provide a spot on demonstration of how the characters are feeling.
The cover of trilogy does a lot of injustice to the books, my initial impression on the book was its must be about some teenage drama, however it focuses on so many dark social issue. I was able to located a grammatical error on page 163 i.e. ‘friends request’ instead of ‘friend request’. It feels a bit odd that all the three girls come from different family background then too they all call their mother “mama”. Also mama is referred to as mother’s brother, the correct word here I guess is ‘Mumma’. I short skit in ‘sick of being health’ felt too scripted.
Few though provoking lines in the book are “I had had enough of proving myself to the world. I did not want to succeed at the cost of my peace of mind”; “Hypocrite is not really a cuss word but a survival skill”; “Get out before you start enjoying the torture chamber”.
This book is not just for teenagers but also for parents of teenage children, it will help better understand their child’s behavior and how to deal with their issues.
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