![]() ![]() As a young African American girl, she is not unaccustomed to marginalization.Īlthough Moth once loved to dance and had hoped to pursue dance at Juilliard after graduating from high school, ever since the accident, she has given up her passion. Her aunt has started drinking heavily, and she is ignored at school. She believes that if she were not so greedy with life, they might have survived. She blames herself for her mother's, father's, and brother's deaths. Ever since, she has struggled to feel alive. ![]() Despite all of Aunt Jack's prayers, only one person left the hospital alive.Īfter the accident, Moth went to Virginia to live with Aunt Jack. Two years prior to the narrative present, Moth and her family were in a car accident while traveling from New York to Virginia to visit Moth's aunt Jack. The following summary relies upon the present tense and a conventional prosaic mode of explanation. The narrative appears on the page as a series of lineated poems, all of which are narrated from the main character Moth's first person point of view. ![]() Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC, 2021.Īmber McBride's Moth (Me) is a novel written in verse. The following version of this book was used to create the guide: McBride, Amber. ![]()
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