Cover of Hood

    Hood

    Emma Donoghue

    301 pages

    In the late ’70s, convent school teenagers Pen O’Grady and Cara Wall fall in love. They prove themselves to be up to the challenge of a relationship deemed unacceptable in Catholic Ireland—until Cara dies in a car accident. Hood is a bittersweet, complicated love story.

    This book had me crying from the very first page.