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During a road trip with her mother from Melbourne to Fairy Point, Australia, to see her dying grandmother, nineteen year old Rose gains a new perspective on events of the previous year, when family problems, the end of a long-term friendship, and bad personal choices dramatically transformed her near-perfect life. Self-actualization. Family problems. Coming-of-age novel explores self-destructive tendencies and resilience. Flashbacks reveal Rose's previous affair with an older man. RC 4.5. Lexile 730. | |