Another Life
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Laura: a teenage girl struggling to fit into her small, sleepy town in upstate New York, slowly drifting away from reality and into the secret life she inhabits online. Paul: a twentysomething wannabe rock star, back home from New York City, broke and jobless, living with his mother. April: a math teacher with two kids, running her church's Vacation Bible School, discontent with another summer planning crafts and regurgitating verses. Ben: a boy stuck at VBS, still adjusting to the presence of his foster brother, DeShawn, a quiet, brooding kid from Brooklyn. Over the course of one summer, these characters' paths will collide in surprising, often hilarious ways. Encompassing questions of identity, religion, race, and family, Another Life is an absorbing and thought-provoking debut about the line we all walk between desire and responsibility.
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This book started out great for me. I loved that there were so many diverse characters and situations being tackled. I loved that each of them had their own POV. I was engaged and convinced this would be a home run for me. Alas, around the halfway mark I started to lose interest. I felt like everything and the kitchen sink was being thrown at us. I started to wish that more focus was on fewer characters (mainly Paul who was by far my favorite character and story). And then I got to the end, and that completely tanked it. We only get closure on Laura and her mother's story. What about Paul? Nikki? Ben? Becca? DeShawn? It was disappointing to say the least.