![]() I read a few reviews in preparation, and I found out that a lot of readers didn’t like the main character. I recommended this book on All the Books, where I have recently become a cohost. (Unlike Caroline, who goes to a prestigious private school.) I know that now.” On top of Caroline’s abusive family, there’s another unnamed narrator who has gone through her own horrors: she’s living in poverty, and has seen two of her mother’s boyfriends overdose. It begins with the lines “Everything started with the body at the edge of the lake. Caroline has reasons to not trust the police, so she’s determined to find Madison herself. But Willa broke up with her and moved away. The only light in her life was Willa, her girlfriend, who she’d see by driving across the border into West Virginia and hanging out at a seedy bar with a fake ID. Her father doesn’t believe in anxiety or depression, and would try to swap out her medication for a juice cleanse if her knew about it. Her mother sent her to a conversion camp (where Caroline then set the place on fire and escaped). ![]() Caroline hasn’t been having a great time even before this. It’s about Caroline, whose best friend, Madison, has just gone missing. This book was a real rollercoaster of a read: I was intrigued by the beginning, felt the middle dragged, and then I was completely on board again by the end. ![]()
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