Chopsticks

Forgive me, but I'm not much of a YA reader. Teens are always living on one end of the spectrum (despair) or another (elation); I find it exhausting to zigzag through life that way. My fifty-six years have revealed to me that even Amazing Love fades in six months and that Terrible Trauma (no car for your sixteenth birthday, for example) has a six month expiration date, too. (You might take a look at The Myths of Happiness by Sonja Lyubomirsky for more info on these phenomena.)

Chopsticks is a such a YA novel, full of Amazing Love and Terrible Trauma. But it's the packaging of Chopsticks that snagged me and sent me to the checkout line at the library.

Very clever packaging. Packaging that tells the story in photos and found objects. I liked the packaging very much.

Not so much the story. Two teens in love. In love against the world. You know what I mean if you've read at least three other YA books.

But the packaging is fun and worth a look-see.