Tiffany Sly Lives Here Now by Dana L. Davis

Davis serves up a compelling and buoyant story that takes detours, at moments, into the profound.ĭr. Tiffany Sly Lives Here Now has its shortcomings-a few of its adults have chameleon-like personalities that shift to keep up with the plot-but they do not outweigh the book’s significant strengths. Depending on the age of your teenage reader, you may also want to read the book and use it as a springboard for some key conversations at home. These include grown-ups having multiple romantic partners in short order, an adolescent girl providing oral sex and regretting having had intercourse, unwanted pregnancy, and abortion. Themes of Mortality and BereavementĪdults should know that the book deals with several sexual topics. This is, in part, thanks to Tiffany’s role as an engaging, wry, and candid narrator. These tricky topics are pitched at a level appropriate to any thoughtful adolescent reader. Tiffany Sly Lives Here Now weighs subjects such as mortality and bereavement, stereotyping and discrimination, organized religion and spirituality, and the complex social dynamics of high school.

While the plot skips along, the book’s themes are anything but frivolous. It’s a bona fide mystery complete with clues, red herrings, and twists. A second man has come forward to claim Tiffany as his daughter. The story begins as 16-year-old Tiffany, whose mother has just died of cancer, flies across the country to live with a stranger who may or may not be her father. Davis’ Tiffany Sly Lives Here Now takes off quickly and holds the reader’s interest until the end. Ellen Keefe is a ninth grader at Shaker Heights High School.ĭana L.

Tiffany Sly Lives Here Now by Dana L. Davis