Annie On My
Mind
Garden, N.
(1982). Annie on my mind. NY: FSG.
“Annie on My Mind” is a story about
two seventeen-year-old girls who fall in love. Liza Wintrop comes from an upper
middle-class family, living in Brooklyn Heights in New York. She is the school
president at her private school, Foster Academy, with dreams of attending MIT
to become an architect. Annie Kenyon comes from a hard-working class
family who attends a public school with dreams of attending Berkeley in
California.
Liza and Annie meet for the first
time at The Metropolitan Museum of Arts. Although reserved, Liza finds herself
drawn to Annie’s carefree spirit. During this friendship, the young girls learn
to be true to themselves and their feeling for each other. Overwhelming
pressure from family and school threatened to ruin their love. They are faced
with some harsh obstacles but are supported by two of their teachers, after
high school they go their separate ways. In the end, they overcome all the
obstacles to remain together.
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