A Peach Out of Reach

A Peach Out of Reach is a coming of age novel set in the mid 1990’s about a young girl who encounters the evil world that she lives in. Teen pregnancy, bullying, kidnapping, assault and murder have a devastating impact on her life, driving her into recklessness due to low self esteem. Toni Morrison is the fourteen year old daughter of a minister and his wife who try to steer her straight through the church’s youth outreach program, The Young People’s Purity Club, which teaches abstinence from improper contact with the opposite sex. The rebellious teen faces devastation from the death of her best friend, and the truth about her birth father. When her parents are given the task of setting up the Purity Club in their affiliated church in Philadelphia, Toni faces much rejection from the children there. After a boy dies protecting her from a pervert, Toni believes that she is the product of a ‘bad seed’, until she meets a young man years later who changes her whole outlook on life and wins her heart.