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A foster child who has been shuffled through the system after being abandoned at the YMCA as a baby wonders about her birth family and the reasons she was given up, questions that lead to the tragic story of her flawed and desperate mother.
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There are times that I think it might be a good idea to have warning labels on teen books. When I was an impressionable teen (are there any other kind?) I found myself reading The Bell Jar, a book that spiraled me into a six-month-long depression. (I blame Bell Jar, in any case, for my senior year angst...it certainly didn't generate any happy thoughts.)
This is, then, a book that could use a warning label. On a scale of Bleak to Grim to Mind-Numbingly Depressing, this book would fall far to the right.
“It takes awhile to understand this,” Vaughn says to me, “but there's enough room in a life for failure and loss.” (315)
I think this will be a hit this fall when it releases. Loved the gritty nature of the story. Fell in love with the misfit cast of characters.
