This is one of those books you just go WOW when you finish it. Life is art. All is art. Even painful things can be art. The story revolves around 16 year old Sarah who has so much on her plate to deal with in so many directions not to mention the suppressed mental baggage that it all begins to express itself in unusual ways. Excellently told, A. S. King is truly one of the masters in Youth writing today. It is not a story the reader will easily figure out. Many things come in to play in this tale of a teenager in Philadelphia. The past, the present, injustice, talent, abuse, love, loathing, familial bonds that are stronger than a rat in a hole can gnaw through. Read it, listen to it, appreciate it. Fantasy and reality have no real delineations like art they blend, their borders and boundaries blur, the colors and textures create new visions of what is, what was, what shall be. The state of things as they exist lose their hold on contemporary reality and become something new. The artist becomes one with all the different phases in her life just as a piece of art takes shape from a single stroke, a single angle, a bit of clay. This story is so many things wrapped into one delectable tale of a young artist literally meeting herself coming and going. It’s like biting into an apple. And it will make you wax philosophic. You won’t be able to put it down till you finish it. Excellent book.
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