But then Micah enters her classroom. He was in the same treatment center as Alice, and knows about her illness. She is assigned to a school art project with him. Micah and Lily talk a lot about Micah's troubles and the illness of Alice, especially when Alica comes home again and makes Lily face her own issues, which are compulsions that she can't ignore and that grown stronger and more problematic during the story. Alice seems a shell of her former self. As her mood improves Lily learns her sister stopped taking her meds just as Lily and Micah grow closer. Both Lily and Alice's mental issues grow bigger until a dramatic event in the end.
This is not an easy and light fun read. This is a young adult novel that handles serious mentall illness as bipolar disorder. It certainly took me a while to get into the story. Some parts where interesting, but somehow the story itself dragged a bit. The lighter '"side story'' was the guerilla poetry project Lily and Micah where working on, everyone in their high school is wondering where this poetry is coming from and no on expects it is Lily and Micah. The book also deals with the stigma around mentall illness, as people in their class slowly get to know Micah's past and he is bullied. It is a story of coping, grief, family, friendship and acceptance. Not the very strongest storyline, but overall its and okay read.
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