![]() ![]() After Tessa arrives at the mall, we are immediately pushed into Tessa’s mind where each item in the bag correlates with a specific moment in her life where she made a decision which wasn’t ideal. This book has a unique concept and storyline because it is a self-reflection of all of Tessa’s life experiences instead of a story with consecutive events. Written in free verse poetry, Wendy Mass’ Heaven Looks a Lot Like the Mall forces Tessa to examine her own flaws in order to answer the pending question on her college essay: who are you? Given a bag of all the purchases she has made in her life, Tessa is forced to relive some of the good and not-so-good memories she’s made leading up to the present. After 16 year old Tessa gets hit by a dodgeball in gym class and is put into a coma, she enters her version of Heaven, which has a striking resemblance to the mall her parents own. ![]()
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