![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She falls for the new boy at school, Nix, who is from New Orleans and is Quirky with a capital Q. Frances seems reasonably well-adjusted, though with some residual PTSD. Anyone who follows the news can instantly figure out what happened, though Nelson doesn't reveal it until about a third of the way into the book. Her birth mother and sisters are nowhere around. Then it switches to the same child, now a teenager named Frances, who is living with her adoptive parents in Alabama. It opens with a creepily evocative piece of writing from the point of view of a child, Shine, living with her three younger sisters and their psychotic mother, who thinks she's the queen of a fantasyland called Fireless. I haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaated this YA novel, which has won a number of awards which it did not deserve. ![]()
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