In the Ceiling the Stars Are Shining
- In the Ceiling the Stars Are Shining
"In The Ceiling The Stars Are Shining" (orig. Swedish "I taket lyser stjärnorna", literally translation) is a Swedish novel by Johanna Thydell, published in 2003. The book is about thirteen year old Jenna Wilson, who is unpopular at school and whose mother is dying of breast cancer. The book won the prestigious August Prize as the best Swedish children's and youth's book of 2003. [cite news |title=Elever mötte sin favoritförfattare |author= |publisher=Folkbladet |date=2007-05-16 |url=http://www.folkbladet.se/nyheter/artikel.aspx?ArticleID=2694629 |accessdate=2008-03-16]
Plot summary
At Jennas home, God hasn't done his work correctly. Because there is zimmer frame, dosage box, shower chair, wigs and adapted furniture. And a grandmother who always is a busybody and keeps reminding her that everything is far from well.
She has stars in her ceiling that glows at night, and under one of them Jenna has hidden a poem that was written in school:
"If you die mom, I'll kill myself"
Jenna goes in seventh grade and likes a guy in ninth grade called Sakarias, or Sakke. The only thing she does is thinking about and talking about him with her best friend Susanna. But they are slowly slipping away from each other and things get worse when she befriends Ullis Knullis ("Ullis Fucker").
Ullis is the most popular girl in school that lives in the same building as Jenna, and she and Susanna always had hated her. But Jenna starts to realize that Ullis is kind of nice and is more like her than she could think of. Ullis mother is an alcoholic, and while Jennas only wish is for her mother to live, Ullis only wish is that her mother would die.
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