Inexcusable

Chris Lynch
Inexcusable
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2005
Genre-Narrative, Realistic, Contemporary
Iowa High School Book Award Nominee 2007-08

Keir Sarafian is a senior who thinks of himself as a good guy. As he thinks about what happened prior to the night with Gigi, he thinks about the events of his senior year. When he causes an opposing football player to be crippled, he keeps telling himself that he just did what he was supposed to do. After it is shown that it was an accident, he's offered a scholarship to play college ball as he had hoped. Knowing this he sets out to enjoy the rest of the year. When his sisters don't come for his graduation, he takes Gigi with him in a limo to surprise them. However, Keir is surprised to find that they could have come to his graduation but chose not to. His sister tells him a few truths about his year including his lack of respsonsibility. At the end Keir realizes the inexcusable truth that he did rape Gigi.