She is overwhelmed with guilt, something having to do with Tyler's suicide that the reader doesn't know about. Her grades are dropping, and she might lose her chance to get admitted to MIT. Lexie is also trying to sort out her feelings after breaking up with her first boyfriend, a boy who was also a long-time and close friend. Her mother is withdrawing from life, finding increasing solace in alcohol. She's struggling with the emotional wreckage caused by her father's decision to run off with a younger woman. In this book, Cynthia Hand's narrator, Alexis, is grieving the suicide death of her younger brother, Tyler. They get to write about the sweet stuff - young love! - but also the harrowing moments that stem from the intense waves of emotion that buffet teens. Writers who target this audience generally have a clean writing style and a willingness to address a wider range of human experience than the warped love and ubiquitous sex that permeates adult fiction. I am growing fonder by the day of young adult fiction.
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