Read the whole page, and then read the column with fewer words to find the hidden poem. All the words make up a single poem, but the shorter fragments in one column make up a separate one.įor example, on the first page of Cara's first section, the column on the left says, "How/why/where/when/who/what" (1.1-6), and on the first page of Kendra's first section, the right column reads, "Pretty/isn't/good/enough" (2.1-4). In Perfect, she doesn't use words to create pictures, but the first page of each chapter forms two poems in two columns. Hopkins often experiments with form-for example, in her second novel, Glass, when narrator Kristina talks about her home, the arrangement of the words makes a picture of a house. As she says in her bio, "writing novels in verse fulfills two needs: writing poetry and writing fiction." Verse it is, then. I bought the new Scribner audiobook edition that came out on January 6, 2023, because of Alec Nevala-Lee’s review in The New York Times. Ellen Hopkins is the New York Times bestselling author of Crank, Burned, Impulse, Glass, Identical, Tricks, Fallout, Perfect, Triangles, Tilt, and Collateral.She lives in Carson City, Nevada, with her husband and son. Sherriff’s forgotten 1939 novel The Hopkins Manuscript. Like all of Ellen Hopkin's works, the novel is unusual for its free verse format.
The first giveaway, of course, is the fact that the book is five hundred million pages long (give or take a few million) the second is that she always writes in verse. Stewart’s 1949 classic novel Earth Abides then there’s a good chance you’ll love to read R. Perfect is a young adult novel written by American author Ellen Hopkins. You probably wouldn't even have to see her name on the cover to know she wrote it. Go into the young adult lit section of your local bookstore and pick up an Ellen Hopkins book.
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