Callie's competing loyalties to both parents prove trying as she grapples with creating friendships and fulfilling family expectations. He is part of a large Greek-American community in which everyone seems to know everyone and she is overwhelmed by it. Left to her own devices all those years, she bristles at his attempts to establish a stable home environment and draw her into his close-knit family. But when Veronica is finally arrested for her daughter's kidnapping, Callie's reunion with her father, Greg, is bittersweet. Rootless and bouncing from place to place, the teen has become accustomed to loneliness. Callie was kidnapped at age five by her mother, Veronica, and both have been on the run ever since. Gr 10 Up–Readers who appreciated the gritty realism tempered with romance in Doller's Something Like Normal (Bloomsbury, 2012) will welcome this book about a 17-year-old struggling to move beyond a traumatic past and find redemption.
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