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391 pp.
| Farrar |
August, 2016 |
TradeISBN 978-0-374-30284-9$17.99
(4)
YA
A shattered friendship between high schoolers Agnes, Moira, and Boone is pieced together as they share their struggles: Moira with body image and fat-shaming; Boone with his family's low income and his mother's spiraling depression; and Agnes, who suffers from progeria, with a short lifespan. The friendship-enmity-friendship path is predictable, but the rotating first-person narratives provide urgency and reflection as Agnes's death unsurprisingly approaches.