Monday, February 8, 2010

Leaving Paradise, by Simone Elkeles


Caleb Becker has just served a year in juvenile detention for a hit and run accident in which the girl next door was critically injured.
Maggie Armstrong has just spent a year in hospitals and rehabilitation trying to recover use of her leg after being struck by Caleb's car.
Both are returning to school and trying to put their lives back together and are dreading having to see one another. But both are fighting for their lives, and no one understands that as well as each other.
Told in alternating chapters, the stories of these two damaged people struggling with the after effects of a devastating accident is moving and complicated as it becomes a love story with no happy ending in sight.

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