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Average rating3.8
After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route. Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left.
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This was excellent. Would have loved it as a teenager, not sure why I never read it when it came out.
Enchanting characters! Magical, but also tragically real settings. We walk through the pain of several characters and find a bit of ourselves in them. Sal deals with her pain and we find ourselves dealing with our own pain as well.
Amazing!!! Fabulous!!! Top 10 read.
I read this book for the first time when I was doing my training to become a librarian. It was a breathtaking book, full of mysteries and small plots that all come together for a fantastic ending. The story is that of Sal who is traveling with her quirky grandparents across the US, taking the same path as that of Sal's mother. Sal is on her way to find her mother who left home a year ago and has not returned. During the trip, Sal tells her grandparents the story of her friend, Phoebe, who received mysterious messages, met a “lunatic,” and, like Sal, had a mother who disappeared. The story is thoughtful as well as plotful. I loved this book.