Thursday, December 25, 2014

Both of Me

   

Clara has lived her whole life regretting "The Great Undoing" and as a result, once her father gets out of prison, she runs away.  She has many adventures traveling around the world but when she meets Elias on the plane everything changes.  For some reason he has a picture in his sketchbook that looks like her memories of "The Great Undoing".  How could he know.   When their bags get mixed up at the airport Clara tracks Elias down but she finds another Elias.  Elias suffers from a mental illness and at times he is a sweet caring young man and at other times he lives in a fantasy world called Salem.  Searching for answers Clara travels with Elias on his journey to Salem.

This was quite the tale.  Mixed up and beautiful at the same time.  The ending was emotional and I hadn't seen it coming.  I liked it quite a bit.  Unfortunately it is too old for my students but I really liked it.

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