![]() ![]() One summer day, they finally kiss in Axel’s basement as this is happening, Leigh’s mother dies by suicide. They’re both highly artistic, two of the only mixed-race students at their homogenous high school, and know each other better than anyone else. Like many teenagers (at least in YA books), Leigh Chen Sanders is in love with her best friend, Axel Moreno. ![]() How do you stop it? How do you work the mind free? In Brief:įirst YA book I’ve read in a while! But don’t let that deter you – it was still lovely to read as a less-young-adult, with deeply empathetic characters and a delicate balance between 1) teenage romance/angst and 2) a powerful message about coping with grief/loss. ![]() It won’t exactly kil you, but it makes you feel the squeeze of every horrible moment. A moment of humiliation, or devastation, or absolute rage, to be rewound and replaced, spinning a thread that wraps around the brain, knotting itself into something of a noose. Memory is a mean thing, slicing at you from the harshest angles, dipping your consciousness into the wrong colors again and again. ![]()
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