Is Justine crazy?
Everyone thinks soâŚ
Her mother. The kids at school, and the teachers and administrators too. Even the police who pick her up from her night rambles. Maybe them most of all.
Justineâs therapist says she is âtroubledâ, but it means the same thing. He thinks that her vivid, reoccurring nightmares and atrocious behavior point to some trauma in her past; but Em, Justineâs mother, canât explain it.
Justine used to have Christian, her best friend and skateboard partner. He was the only one who accepted her. Maybe because skating is the only time that Justine is really free to be herself. Now that Christian is gone⌠Justine keeps thinking things canât get any worse.
Even as she sees her life spinning further and further out of control, Justine canât give up her sense of who she isâsomeone far different than the loving daughter Em expects her to beâto just fit in and be happy. She is sure that Em secretly holds the key to who Justine really is. But if she does, Em isnât talking.
By the author of Tattooed Teardrops, winner of the Top Fiction Award, In the Margins Committee, 2016.
If you enjoy gritty contemporary young adult books like those by John Green and Stephen Chbosky, give P.D. Workmanâs Stand Alone a try.