This book is about tragedy. A fifteen year old girl has to act like the adult throughout this story. Rowan's big brother, Jack, died. Since then, her father moved out, and her mother went into depression. She is left to take care of her six year old sister. She does the grocery shopping. She cooks and looks after her sister. She brings her mother to her doctor's appointments. She goes to school. And she grieves, in her own way. Rowen becomes friends with Bee. They try and figure out this “mystery” boy’s sudden appearance in town. I must be attracted to books about tragedy. It seems that is all I have read. For some reason the way these tragic events happen, intrigues me, the reader. I felt Rowen’s pain the whole story. She just wants to be a kid, but doesn’t want her family to fall apart more than it already has.
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