Alice's dad has moved out, her brothers have been sent to live with her aunt and only Alice is left to deal with her mom who is still recovering emotionally from a devastating accident. But Alice is not happy and decides to live in a tent in the yard as a protest. For awhile she is able to get away with it - her mom mostly ignores her and she meets a new friend, keeps swimming, and starts helping out with a girl next store who won't speak. She even helps her friend experiment with fireflies. But eventually her parents force her to move in with her aunt - especially after some questionable decisions. What is the line where love turns to hate? Can Alice ever truly know or just accept that at some point things changed and she has to learn to live with it.
This ended up being a pretty good book - one of those that ends more realistically than most. It did take a long time to get there though and I am not sure it will hold reader's interest.
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