Summary:
"They called me a breakdown waiting to happen. He didn’t see a breakdown. He saw me."
I see people. The way they travel through life like a blurred stream of light. I am one of them, these people, and we’re all light blasting together from one place to another. We’re all trying to be a part of the world, and yet not be a part of it. Like we’re trying to ball the world up into our hands and hold onto it. That’s me. Trying to capture it. The world. To keep it with me awhile before it goes away.
My mom is a traveler, and she takes me with her everywhere. I am ashamed. I am proud. I want to catch her and make the world stop spinning. Maybe make it spin backwards, so that she is changed.
The worst part is the fear I see when people look at me. As if I’m her. As if I’m going to be her. I’m not. But I wish I was. Because she doesn’t see our world. She has her own, and it’s beautiful.
Her life. Her extraordinary world.
My name is Reagan Lawson, a seventeen-year-old seasoned traveler without a passport.
My life. My origami world.
His name is Matthew Moretti. Senior basketball star, handsome, and as far from my complicated world as he can get, he surprises me with his interest, with the way he pulls me into a world I didn't want any part of.
Until now.
His life. His surprising world.
This book was amazing! I have only read one of other book from this author (Hawthorne and Heathcliff) and it seems that I will have to keep my eye on any books that she releases from here on out. I loved everything about it!
I am going to stand on my therapist soap box for a moment. I was impressed with how well the author did with presenting mental illness. There is such a stigma with mental illness today. I have heard people refer to those with mental illness as being crazy or nut jobs and it sickens me. It is this type of thinking that hurts them and makes them close themselves off from people and/or treatment. It also hurts those that they love as witnessed in this book. They are people who deserve to be treated with respect. Alright, I'm stepping off of my soap box now.
I thought that Reagan was such a strong character. She had endured so much and was still dealing with things throughout the book. Even though she had been through so much, she never lost her capacity to love those around her. Her relationship with her mother was a testament to this. I could tell as I was reading that she was going through a myriad of emotions concerning her mother but she only treated her with love. I thought that their relationship was beautiful!
I enjoyed how the author presented chapters in terms of the "worlds" that Reagan was in at the time. When she was with her mother, she was in her mother's world. When she was at school, she entered a different world. You get the picture.
The author had such a poetic way of presenting things in this book. I am starting to see that as her style of writing and I find it beautiful. The book was realistic without sacrificing the creativity.
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