This book kicks ass. It was a little slippery to start with, but once I got into the flow of how the author writes the book really started to hit home. This is not a final review since I am only on page 100, but I cannot even imagine putting the book down.
Now I just read Youth in Revolt last month, which is like a teenage boy's take on high school and misfit divorced parents. While this book is pretty much the same story, it is told from the view of a very introspective girl. I absolutely love it. The story flits back and forth between current events and stories and event of the recent past. It's a very stream of consciousness story, but with a clean path towards some kind of story.
I guess I relate to it just because this is how I wrote when I was seventeen. The writing seems familiar and comfortable.
I first got this book from the library, not the version you see above, but the original one from 2003. I went online to try and find the original and was surprised to see that it is selling for upwards of $150 on AbeBooks. I was astonished. Apparently Hilary Hamann self-published it in 2003 and now has re-released it as a hard cover again this year. I much prefer the smaller more compact version from 2003 that is now apparently a "rare" edition over the newer mass market standard size and type re release.
I'll keep you posted if the book takes a turn for the worse, but for now this book is going to be one of those books that while originally checked out from the library, had to be purchased for posterity.
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