This is the story of Heather Sellers who is "face blind". She doesn't recognize faces; she can pass her own mother in the grocery store and know even know it. She embraces strange men in the airport thinking they are her boyfriend (they are not, and he laughs as he watches this happen from afar). Not only is she face blind, but her parents are both bat-crazy, which makes for a fascinating story.
I'm torn because I need good airplane reading for later this week, You Don't Look... or Girl with the Dragon Tattoo? (Tattoo is paperback so it has that going for it). Times like these, a girl wants a Nook.
Well, I handed off Surviving the Extremes to a friend who showed interest in reading it. Since I was in the middle of two other books, I could afford to leave it for a while (also, I don't think we'll be using it for our read-it-forward after all). Don't climb Mt. Everest and you're safer, I'm just sayin'.
Crazy: I liked the ending. Jason totally needed to get out of that house with the crazy dad, no heat, no food and leaking roof. I've probably ruined it for the one reader I have out there (who doesn't read y.a. lit anyway), but I found myself disbelieving that some of this. What I find perhaps saddest of all y.a. themes, is the lack of a positive adult in many of these kids lives. Then again, I suppose that does happen. Push anyone?
I'm slowly making my way through Selected Stories - short story fans, I definitely recommend it!
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