THE WHOLE GOLDEN WORLD by Kristina Riggle is the story
that could be taken right out of today's newspapers.
Morgan is seventeen
years old, a senior in high school, who just so happens to
be in love with
her calculus teacher, TJ Hill. Morgan's mom, Dinah, is a
helicopter mom,
ever since her twin boys were born months early. Even
thought they are
fourteen now, she doesn't know any other way to act with her
family. She
expects Morgan to be the same way with them when she is at
work or
away from the twins. How could she be so smothering of the
twins yet not know any of this is going on with Morgan?
Dinah's husband, Joe, is the assistant principal at the
school. He is the
ears and eyes of the school, or is supposed to be. How can
this
be going on right under his nose, his own daughter, and he
not know
about it? Obviously, they met at Joe's school. First
Morgan would stay
after class and they would talk about stuff going on in her
life, and TJ's as
well. He seemed genuinely concerned about her, but things
change rather
quickly. TJ takes advantage of her low self esteem and her
infatuation of
him.
TJ has a wife, Rain, who is crazy in love with him. They
have been trying
to get pregnant and her life has been consumed by the fact
that everything
they have tried, isn't working. Their lives and feelings
are a mess because
of their quest to have a baby and TJ shuts down as a result
of it. He feels
like such a failure because Rain isn't getting pregnant and
this is when he
seeks out Morgan. She makes him feel like a hero.
THE WHOLE
GOLDEN WORLD starts off with Rain sitting in a court room,
supporting
her husband as legal proceedings begin against him. The
story goes back
and forth between the courtroom and how they wound up there.
This is a real page turner, you won't be able to put down.
The ending of THE WHOLE GOLEN WORLD is truly heartbreaking.
The
story really makes you think about everyone involved,not
the student and the teacher, but their entire families. The
whole time everyone is thinking "How did
this happen?" Once you start reading you won't be able to
stop until the
very last page. You will find yourself wanting to shake
certain characters,
how naive can someone be? You will sit there shaking your
head at the
way TJ acts in the courtroom. He tries to come off as the
victim and poor
Morgan keeps professing her love for him. Okay, truthfully,
I wanted to
smack him!
I can easily see this story becoming a movie. Kristina does
a
great job of pulling at your heart strings! Once I started
reading it was very
hard for me to stop and put the book down.
Kristina Riggle, the acclaimed author of Real Life & Liars,
returns with a thought-provoking novel inspired by real-life
events
Seventeen-year-old Morgan Monetti shocks her parents and her
community with one simple act: She chooses to stand by the
man everyone else believes has exploited her—popular high
school teacher TJ Hill. Quietly walking across a crowded
courtroom to sit behind TJ, and not beside her parents, she
announces herself as the adult she believes herself to be.
But her mother, Dinah, wants justice. Dinah is a fighter,
and she believes with all her heart and soul that TJ is a
man who took advantage of her daughter. He is a criminal who
should be brought to justice, no matter what the cost to his
family.
Rain, TJ's wife, is shocked that her handsome, loving,
respected husband has been accused of a terrible crime. But
has her desperation to start a family closed her eyes to the
fault lines in her marriage? And can she face the painful
truths about herself and her husband?
Told from the perspectives of these three remarkable women,
The Whole Golden World navigates the precarious territory
between childhood and adulthood, raising questions about
love and manipulation, marriage and motherhood, consent and
responsibility. It's a novel both shocking and unforgettable
in its power.
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