DADDYONGEGS

At 18 years old, Jerusha Abbott is the eldest child stuck in an orphanage with every other kid’s responsibility on her shoulders. Herife takes a pivotal turn when an unnamed man, who is a trustee of the orphanage, pays for her college education being impressed by one of her essays.

He decides to pay a handsome amount to her at regular intervals in return foretters written to him by Jerusha without any expectation of a response. The reader gets a visual of how Jerusha’s life unfolds as she steps into a new phase of herife. She addresses him as daddyongegs for she catches a glimpse of his (long)egs as heeaves the orphanage one day.

Gripping till theast page where the identity of the benefactor is revealed, this epistolary comingof- age classic is relatable to the extent that the reader canive Jerusha’sife through heretters. Her relationship with the anonymous benefactor as she grows,earns, explores and thrives, makes the reader an active yet a passive participant in her story.