genre: realistic fiction
rating: 8/8 tentacles
Alex Parrott, high school senior and former It girl, struggles through a nervous breakdown as her younger sister Thea fights to claim a place for herself in the high school hierarchy. While Alex wastes away in her room, Thea performs the new self she's cultivated, spreads lies, and flaunts her step father's money.
This book is great. The writing is beautiful and real. It's gut writing. It's poetry. I wish I could be this good.
The novel is split between Alex and Thea's perspectives. Alex's chapters are written in third person and Thea's in first. (Interesting, interesting.) The characters possess a human complexity that makes them engaging and relatable, if not likable.
Love this book. I will definitely be reading more of Adele Griffin.
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