This book was amazing. I loved the writing style as it add more emphasis on the situation and made the character's views on her life that much more intense. This is one of the only books that actually made me cry, it was so sad, but it had a somewhat-happy ending as she finds love and forgiveness and moves on. ( )

This book made me want to make 1000 paper cranes.

It was sad and depressing. But I liked it! ( )

Rose and her sister, Ivy, are involved in a car accident in the Adirondacks that has left Ivy in a coma. Rose visits her sister in the hospital daily, and observes how those around her deal with the trauma that has shattered their world. As Rose finds ways to deal with the pain she is going through, McGhee's lyrical prose beautifully describes the inner-workings of Rose's mind and heart. A line that has stayed with me, months after I finished reading the book: "My heart is breaking."

This book will stay with you long after you put it down. ( )

"Because Ivy and I had an accident. It was the end of the winter, dusk in Adirondacks, and we came around a curve. And then Ivy wasn't moving, and she wasn't answering, and was she breathing? Blood. My window was broken and I broke it more. I punched it with my jacket wrapped around my hand, punched and punched, and I crawled out and fell up. We were upside down? How had that happened? I ran."

Rose and Ivy were in a car accident. Ivy now lies in a vegetative state in a nursing home. Rose must cope with survivor's guilt, her mother's growing distance, and the fact that half of herself, her sister Ivy, won't ever return. Rose is still water, trapped behind a dam, and all she wants is to flow to the sea.

Alison McGhee lyrically, yet succinctly, tells the story of one girl's healing process.

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17 year-old Rose and her older sister Ivy were in a car accident in the Adirondacks. Ivy has been on life support eversince and Rose has not been able to move on. She visits her everyday because she is Ivy's sister. But her mother who keeps Ivy on life support has never visted at the nursing home. Rose wants to feel and lets herself be used by boys at school, but that doesn't help. Sometimes beautiful though somewhat repetitive. ( )