And this isn’t just any boy, but the stupid boy who fed chocolate to Natalie’s dog and made him deathly ill. Then suddenly Natalie learns that the son of one of her mother’s college friends is coming to spend the summer working at her mother’s clinic. Sadly for Natalie, her mother’s trust issues from her husband’s desertion translate into her daughter not enjoying the freedom that many of her friends enjoy. Natalie’s father, a famous dog behaviorist with an impulse control problem of his own, left his family for one of his clients. Natalie lives with her mother, a veterinarian, and her grandmother, a holocaust survivor who married one of her Yankee liberators.
She feels “socially stunted” by her mother’s constant monitoring. Stray by Stacey Goldblatt tells the story of Natalie Kaplan, a sixteen-year-old girl who has decided that to go beyond the smothering boundaries set by her mother and live the life of a “normal” teenager.
Years ago Natalie had devised a strategy where she allows herself two lies per season so that she can get around her mother’s strictness-and this summer she goes way over her quota."
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