Are You Afraid to Touch?
What if you were born with an allergy that would not allow you to touch another human being? And they could not touch you? How would you survive? How could you participate within society? In Colleen Oakley’s novel Close Enough to Touch her main character Jubilee Jenkins lives with these issues. Can one truly understand this journey? Facebook Twitter Instagram “Jubilee Jenkins has a rare condition: She's allergic to human touch. After a nearly fatal accident, she became reclusive, living in the confines of her home for nine years. But after her mother dies, Jubilee is forced to face the world - and the people in it - that she's been hiding from. Jubilee finds safe haven at her local library, where she gets a job. It's there she meets Eric Keegan, a divorced man who recently moved to town with his brilliant, troubled adopted son. Eric is struggling to figure out how to be the dad - and man - he wants so desperately to be. Jub