Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta

Jellicoe Road

by Melina Marchetta

Abandoned by her drug-addicted mother at the age of eleven, high school student Taylor Markham struggles with her identity and family history at a boarding school in Australia.

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2019 Popsugar Reading Challenge
03. A book that makes you nostalgic

My father took one hundred and thirty-two minutes to die. I counted. It happened on the Jellicoe Road. The prettiest road I’d ever seen, where trees made breezy canopies like a tunnel to Shangri-la. We were going to the ocean, hundreds of miles away, because I wanted to see the ocean and my father said that it was about time the four of us made that journey. I remember asking, “What’s the difference between a trip and a journey?” and my father said, “Narnie, my love, when we get there, you’ll understand,” and that was the last thing he ever said.


— Still as hauntingly beautiful as I remember it to be. Sad, sweet, and well, nostalgic. I love this book with all my heart and soul 😭❤️

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