This book should have been a good one. On the plus side - not one, but two interesting plot lines. The chapters are titled "Then" and "Now", so it's easy enough to move between the two story lines. One story is about a girl, Cass, biking cross country with the ashes of her best friend to complete the road trip that the sudden death of her friend Julia prevented. The other story concerns a play that Julia wrote, and that her friends produce as a tribute to Julia.
But the story is weighed down with a seemingly endless preoccupation with feelings - everybody's feelings, endless discussions about feelings. Well, I've read a succession of terrific books lately, I was overdue to hit a clunker, or maybe I just didn't connect with the characters. Alex Sanchez and David Levithan do a better job with gay issues.
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