#579 Harvest- Danielle Evans

A group of girls are at college. You learn a lot about the world at college, especially all the things that make us different or unwanted or seemingly less valued. Angel sees this, the different ways the girls change depending on race, wealth, upbringing. She thinks about boys.

“Of course I had a boyfriend. We all did, they were like accessories; We kept then stored at colleges up and down the East coast and pulled them out on formal occasions or in the event of boredom or loneliness.”

The process of growth and adulthood can be empowering, or it can be sudden and halting. The latter’s what happens to Angel when she becomes pregnant. All these pretty white girls at school are selling their eggs for thousands of dollars, and here she is, unworthy of selling her eggs, but a baby is coming anyway. What is its value, its worth, its chance of a good life; and what about her own life at twenty, un-graduated and now with the biggest responsibility she will ever have? There are no answers, only choices.

Rating: 8-7-8-8 Total= 31