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the book is Edges by Lena Roy. The synopsis from the back of the book:
After his mother dies and his father begins drinking again, Luke decides to leave New York City. Though he’s just sixteen, he finds a job and friends in fantastic, otherworldly Moab, Utah—the last place his family was happy together.
Back in New York, eighteen-year-old Ava finally admits she has a drinking problem. But life doesn’t automatically get easier when she joins Alcoholics Anonymous.
When circumstances—or fate—bring Ava to Moab as well, she and Luke both must figure out how to heal their families and themselves.
Now that you have read that, it is time for my review of the book.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book, even though I wasn’t sure I would. I started reading it, stopped, then had to come back to it. It isn’t my usual type of book, but I did enjoy it. The story takes place in the small rural area of Utah called Moab. The story starts off with a boy named Luke and his day to day actvities at the youth hostel he works at. As the story progresses, you see the day to day activities and the people he sees, mix with his memories and the author does a very nice job of not confusing the reader with how she mixes them together. You can really see how Luke’s mind works in the way he describes things and what events trigger what memories. As the reader gets further into the book, it changes pace and goes to a girl named Ava, who is the daughter of the couple who own the youth hostel Luke works at. Ava is an recovering alcoholic at 19, and it follows her as she tries to get sober and the series of events that lead her to find Luke’s father on a New York sidewalk. It was a very spiritual book, it talked about the spiritual elements of nature and animals and that some signs are just supposed to be. It is definitely a book I would recommend, because it has both a spiritual and real world element to it, and it’s a good read.
Total Count: 9/10
Favorite Character: Tangerine! And Cin.
Would I like to see more? I would love to see more of Ms. Roy's writing, but this book was very clearly a stand-alone. Anything after it would just be over kill.
Song that matches to the book: I didn't really have one in mind when I was reading it.
