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Like the Red Panda

by Andrea Seigel (Goodreads Author)

3.48 of 5 stars 3.48 · rating details · 851 ratings · 83 reviews

Stella Parrish is seventeen, attractive, smart, deeply alienated, and unable to countenance life's absurdities. She is not nihilistic; she is prematurely exhausted. Since her parents OD'd on designer drugs when she was eleven, she has lived with well-meaning but inexperienced foster parents, while her grandfather, her only living relative, tries ever more ingenious ways of...more

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Published April 5th 2004 by Mariner Books

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Mar 06, 2008 Alicia rated it 3 of 5 stars

This is a compelling read. A teen-lit book, recommended to me by a real-life teen librarian. It's about a Princeton-bound high school senior (Stella) who suddenly stops caring about pretty much everything, from taking exams, to, well, living. Going in, I thought I was in for a kind of lightweight, angsty, coming-of-age story. And I read reviews that said the book was just a laugh a minute. But the not-caring-about-living part sort of stamped out the levity for me. I suspect that, were I a teen t...more

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Jul 05, 2007 Angela rated it 2 of 5 stars

It's happened... I've officially become... old? Mature? I don't know...

Just another book about a suicidal teenager and her screwed up life, which, from the prospective of someone approaching 30 more quickly than she'd like to admit, really isn't all that screwed up for a 17/18-year old. Your teen years are supposed to be screwed up. Those who can handle it do so and move on and make it to the quarter-century birthday and beyond. Those who can't... well, they whine and get apathetic and make suic...more

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Aug 20, 2008 Jackie rated it 4 of 5 stars

This was a great book - a well-developed main character carries the story. Full of emotional punch that weaves through the story like a spider's web, pulling all the parts into a whole. Beautiful imagery, also.

I love how this books deals with the topic of suicide, but does not go into over-angsty melodrama. Stella lives a calm, normal day-to-day life, but it is well illustrated how something inside her is just irrepairably broken. It's almost as if she regards herself as a vase or something wit...more

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Mar 09, 2010 Cynthia added it

This novel is called Like the Red panda which is written by Andrea Seigel. This book is mostly
about a girl called Stella who is a smart high school student, that her parents were both died
and she had to live in a foster home that she didn’t like her foster parents at all and she felt
isolated. And of some motivation she decided to suicide . After finishing this novel, I think that
this book is really good and is my first time to read it. As the story starts , she mentions the
modern life that...more

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Dec 13, 2008 Sarah rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2005, fiction, ya-childrens, coming-of-age

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. like the red panada was depressing as shit. i read it because of the whole coming of age thing that i love reading, but it wasn't really coming of age so much as something else. stella (try to read that without thinking of elaine screaming it high on painkiller) is the main character. she's 18, graduating high school and smart as shit going to princeton. but she decides her life is empty or pointless or something and decides to kill herself on the day after the last day of school. the thing that...more

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Sep 03, 2012 Rebekah Agee rated it 2 of 5 stars

I did not enjoy this book. It follows high school senior Stella Parrish through the last few weeks of school. She has a very promising future ahead of her at Yale or maybe it was Princeton, but during a drama class one day while throwing an invisible beach ball, she decides she doesn't really care. So the rest of the book is about her dawning realization of her apathy and the plans towards ending her life. It goes back through to her past and the death of her drug addicted parents at her 10th bd...more

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Nov 16, 2010 Jordan M rated it 3 of 5 stars

My review of Like the Red Panda

What can I say about ‘Like the Red Panda”? I thought this book was heavily depressing as it’s about a girl who wants to commit suicide two weeks before graduating high school. Stella Parrish, the protagonist, is a seventeen year old foster child. Her parents died from a cocaine overdose when she was at the precious age of eleven. Ever since then she has been living with two colourless foster parents and visiting her exuberant yet obnoxious grandfather, Donald—the o...more
My review of Like the Red Panda

What can I say about ‘Like the Red Panda”? I thought this book was heavily depressing as it’s about a girl who wants to commit suicide two weeks before graduating high school. Stella Parrish, the protagonist, is a seventeen year old foster child. Her parents died from a cocaine overdose when she was at the precious age of eleven. Ever since then she has been living with two colourless foster parents and visiting her exuberant yet obnoxious grandfather, Donald—the only family she has left— every Sunday. So in a way I can kind of understand that she has lived a hard life. She’s a stranger in her own home and an outcast at school. Honestly though, when I look at all the great things that she has, I’m almost a bit jealous. She has excellent grades in school and she’s attending Princeton in the fall to show for it. Also, it’s not like she is living in the slums—rather she is living in the suburbs. “And that’s the thing about Woodbridge, the village where I live now. You can’t call it a mediocre or deadened place. You just can’t. There’s incredible focus in the street lamps that light up the night like he whole city’s an accident on the free-way. There are lush parks and sparkling pools to be shared with every hundred home owners, even though tons of them already have parks or pools on their backyards. The grocery stores are bright and elegant, with marbleized floors and women that get dressed up to buy Lysol”. C’mon, she’s living in luxury land! I realize that it is hard to make friends—especially in high school— but what has she been doing the past four years?
Another part of the novel that irritated me was the fall-out that occurred in the Macy’s department store between Stella and her foster mother Shana. At one moment they were ‘peacefully’ shopping for grad dresses and at the next, they were at each others throats in the change room! I just don’t see the logic that the author, Andrea Seigel, had when putting this scene in the book. I recognize that it had to happen at one point or another but there was definitely a better place like their home or in the car for this to have happened. I wasn’t all that impressed with the style of writing that Seigel used. I understand that she was portraying the mind of a teenage girl but the novel just didn’t withhold me interest. The writing style was just too dumb- downed that at one point I thought ‘am I actually reading this’. Overall I though the premise of the book was good, but the ideas just needed to be developed better. I wouldn’t recommend this book however, unless you’re in the mood to be depressed and bored.
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Michael.Ju
Sadness is my first sensation when I finished reading this story. The protagonist of this story is Stella who is an intelligent and smart girl in high school, no one can deny that her childhood is totally a tragedy, she early get involved with drugs, sex, and anything a student ought not have because of her environment of growth, anything that can hurt a teenager’s heart happened on her, terrified marriage of her parents; adopted at the age of eleven by an...more Review of Like the Red Panda

Michael.Ju
Sadness is my first sensation when I finished reading this story. The protagonist of this story is Stella who is an intelligent and smart girl in high school, no one can deny that her childhood is totally a tragedy, she early get involved with drugs, sex, and anything a student ought not have because of her environment of growth, anything that can hurt a teenager’s heart happened on her, terrified marriage of her parents; adopted at the age of eleven by an emotionally distant couple; and a boyfriend who doesn’t real like her, all these kind of dark elements nailed the best time of a girl, so she starts to despair to this world, and finally, she decides that the only solution is to commit suicide by the time her graduation rolls around.
This book is written like a journal that almost record everything and every moment for her last two weeks of her life, I have to say it’s really attractive for me to read, it contain every detail in the time of her rest of life, these details also tell me she has a serious attitude treat that, she finally do herself once. When I am reading her as if I am going into Stella’s heart world, I can clear find out what her thought is, it’s like a process to exploring a person, I even cannot put it down when I put it up. For the end of this story, maybe it’s a little bit sad that Stella plan to die, but it’s the truth, life doesn’t always go where we expect to go, and that’s reality. I don’t like her choice to her life because I think when she gives up the world is equal to give up the hope, what a terrible thing for a teenager to lose hope to the world, how irony it is. As a conclusion, I think this is one of the best books for the teenager theme, there are many elements to express the trouble during teenager’s process of growth, maybe it hurts, but it’s true.
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Mar 12, 2010 Chris rated it 5 of 5 stars

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To tell you the truth, when I first picked up Like the Red Panda by Andrea Seigel, I judged the book by its cover and thought to myself, just another one of those novels on suicide. The typical, “There is no meaning to life so I’m going to end it” kind of book. The thing is, right when I picked up the book, I could not put it down! This intense, deep, and dark book kept me flipping each page thinking what was going to hap...more Like the Red Carpet, Strong and Bold
Like the Red Panda By: Andrea Seigel
To tell you the truth, when I first picked up Like the Red Panda by Andrea Seigel, I judged the book by its cover and thought to myself, just another one of those novels on suicide. The typical, “There is no meaning to life so I’m going to end it” kind of book. The thing is, right when I picked up the book, I could not put it down! This intense, deep, and dark book kept me flipping each page thinking what was going to happen next. This is a read that I would definitely recommend to all teenagers!
Stella was an intelligent and pretty girl who had lost her parents from drug overdose in sixth grade and was sent to live with her foster parents. Stella said, “So basically, I didn’t answer any of the pop quiz questions today” (Seigel 72). With only two weeks left of school, Stella stops caring about the future and completely takes school out of her mind. She struggles to hang onto her life as it blows away each day. Like the Red Panda is a weird novel that is intriguing at the same time. It contradicts the idea of a happy suicide causing readers to try and understand why something so dark and evil can be described in a light and happy manner. In the real world, the thought of suicide will scare people away but when written in text, the complexity of that thought brings readers closer. The way Seigel slows down the pace of the narration causes the mind of a reader to think about everything that has been written and allows them to pick up the key facts which help connect the puzzle pieces that hold the intricate story together.
Although Like the Red Panda interests all the aspects that I look for, there were some flaws in her writing. Many readers could not wrap their head around the fact that Seigel brings up a new scenario but does not lead to finish. Stella blurts out, “I pulled you aside because I wanted to know if you could get me a gun” (Seigel 90). As she brings this topic of a gun up, thoughts and images immediately rush through the readers minds. The discomforting part was that the thought of Stella getting a gun was never brought up again. However, while others believe this to be a weak point in the story, I can lead to believe that this was very effective. As she brings up the idea of a gun, many readers are anxious to see what happens next so they continue reading and reading until the idea is brought up again. This technique caused readers to keep flipping pages and read until the end.
Like I said before, I did not think that I would like this book, but as the days went by, I have grown to love it! Imagine a girl in your school that you believe is perfect. While everyone around sees her as perfect, she begs to differ. There are little things in her “perfect” life that just push her over the edge. This intricate and powerful read pushed me to look at life differently in the real world. So I can proudly say that Like the Red Panda belongs on the red carpet.
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Feb 24, 2010 Engineous rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: even strangers I met on the street

The book follows a high school girl's life until its deliberate end. Like the Red Panda begins by telling about the deaths of Stella's very affluent parents due to a contaminated batch of cocaine when Stella was nine. For me, it managed not to be overdramatic; others may differ. After this, Stella is adopted by a Jewish couple; her adoptive father is so subtle and deadpan that she's unnerved by him, and she dislikes her adoptive mother because of what seems to be a crippling anxiety disorder.

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Feb 08, 2010 Maria rated it 4 of 5 stars

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Nov 30, 2009 Caren rated it 3 of 5 stars

“Like the red panda” by Andrea Seigel is pleasurable read. It unfolds the story of a teenage girl’s last two weeks in high school. Unlike other novels, it presents the topic of suicide in a less serious manner. The novel is written in a diary form, the readers will be able to observe things through Stella’s perspective and understand the reasons behind her suicide. The readers could focus more on the character’s internal conflicts.
The protagonist Stella has an attitude, she is very smart; howe...more “Like the red panda” by Andrea Seigel is pleasurable read. It unfolds the story of a teenage girl’s last two weeks in high school. Unlike other novels, it presents the topic of suicide in a less serious manner. The novel is written in a diary form, the readers will be able to observe things through Stella’s perspective and understand the reasons behind her suicide. The readers could focus more on the character’s internal conflicts.
The protagonist Stella has an attitude, she is very smart; however, this doesn’t stop her from hating school. She doesn’t like the idea of how students need to follow the customary path to succeed; nor the idea of taking the courses she doesn’t like so she could show a good transcript. Especially for drama class, when the teacher tells her pretend to hit a beach ball, however, she “was too exhausted to pretend to have fun at a beach that doesn’t exist.”(Seigel 2). Her lackadaisical attitudes toward the surroundings make readers to reconsider the true meaning of life.
One thing I don’t like about the novel is that it’s doesn’t appear too realistic to me. The novel doesn’t involve many cliffhanging plots and it’s a bit dragging, though the author is able to capture readers’ interest through series of small internal conflicts, however, it lacks of a more complex external conflict.
The ending of the novel is very surprising, it doesn’t go as the way readers anticipated, in the last piece of her journal; Stella only briefly mentions that “I’m going to stop this.” (Seigel 274). I think the author is implying something else rather than what is stated, I reread the last piece of her journal trying to figure out the ending, however, I was unable to because the protagonist’s thoughts are very different and unpredictable.
Through the book, the readers will explore through the dark and strange thoughts from Stella’s perspective. Her unique attitude and unpredictable thoughts are what make “Like the read panda” an interesting read.
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May 26, 2009 Océlô rated it 5 of 5 stars

Like the Red Panda stunned me - I'm not and have never been used to authors treating the subject of suicide with such empathy and compassion. Actually, I've never encountered any author treating it with more than a self-righteous Moral Main Character line or a cheap plot point. But Andrea Seigel somehow managed to take the life and times - and willful self-annihilation - of a highschool girl and make it something else. Don't kid yourself; the main character, Stella, does kill herself in the end....more

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Apr 29, 2009 Sharon Y rated it 2 of 5 stars

Recommended to Sharon by: A librarian

Essentially a narrative of Stella's last 2 weeks in both high school and life, I found this book to be a tad unrealistic. The social alienation that she endures comes off as self imposed and easily correctable if she would put in any effort at all to change her circumstances. Though it isn't made immediately clear of why she wants to go through with suicide, it is obvious that the death of her parents have had a huge impact on her decision. This fact makes the relationship between her and her bo...more

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Jun 15, 2011 Allison rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: ya

Despite being about teenage suicide, this book was actually really funny. Stella, the main character, is a witty seventeen year old who has a firm grip on life. She's not depressed or attention-seeking, she's just not thrilled with living. The book is Stella's own account of what happens during the last two weeks of her life, which includes the last few days of senior year, before she's meant to go to Princeton. I was curious to see how new and changed relationships throughout the story might ma...more

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Jul 14, 2012 Sharon rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction

Snarky, edgy, authentic adolescent voice that kept me interested. The point of view is off-center and keeps the reader back from the emotional core of the main character, which helps the reader accept the nihilistic ending. It's a book that shows a damaged girl unable to come back from her numbness or heal from severe trauma. She's thrown into a sterile, seemingly benign, foster home after her parents die. It's not until near the end of the book that the reader sees how damaging the atmosphere i...more

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Aug 02, 2007 Meg rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2007-books-read-from-jan-to-present, literature-fiction-800s

I'm disappointed. I purchased this a couple of years ago and finally got around to reading it. It was billed as the "antidote to 'chick lit'", but to me, it just felt like an worn, unhappy, unnecessarily vain rendition of the angsty early-to-mid 90s Kaysen/Karr/Harrison class of memoir, only fiction.

If you like emo and want my copy, I'll gladly mail it to you.

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Aug 01, 2010 Linda rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2004, contemporary-fiction, ya, suicide, coming-of-age

This was not an easy book for me to read. Stella is two weeks away from graduating at the top of her high school class. She however has other plans: committing suicide.

Although parts of this book were very funny, and Stella’s wry observations of high school life were on target, for the most part the book did nothing for me. While at times I felt some sympathy for Stella and her difficult life, in general I didn’t like her much and thought she was whining just a little too much for me. Many of th...more

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May 16, 2010 Ab rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: ya-ness, realms-of-the-psychological

This was an 'alright' read. Not the best, but not the worst, either. Maybe my 'not-blown-away' feelings about the book have to do with how real-life the whole setting of the book is (and how much I could regrettably relate and was forced to relive, ughh, high school). The main character, Stella, is within two weeks of graduating high school, and she just sort of gets hit with this wave of apathy and 'done-ness' with the whole getting on with life thing. The book is full of wit, so the subject of...more This was an 'alright' read. Not the best, but not the worst, either. Maybe my 'not-blown-away' feelings about the book have to do with how real-life the whole setting of the book is (and how much I could regrettably relate and was forced to relive, ughh, high school). The main character, Stella, is within two weeks of graduating high school, and she just sort of gets hit with this wave of apathy and 'done-ness' with the whole getting on with life thing. The book is full of wit, so the subject of someone planning on killing themselves isn't as depressing as it would seem, but it's no fluffy-bunny read, for sure.

Her "awakening" of sorts comes in drama class:

"But then today, when Mr. Nichols told me that my beach ball wasn't going high enough (and considering that it's invisible, how did he know?), I knew I was done. That's it. There comes a point when you're just too exhausted to pretend to have fun at a beach that doesn't exist." -- p.2

Stella's a straight-A student, on the Honor track, in AP classes her Senior year, and she's on her way to the principal due to her refusal to throw an invisible beach ball and she reflects on the 'bad' kids sitting around not in class:

"When you think of the bad kids, you think they're the ones who are bitter and hating school. But today I realized that they're actually happy. The narcs come by and threaten yellow slips and detention, but then the narcs just end up laughing with the kids and making up inside jokes. And then, like I said before, the principal watches out for them, and the teachers want to make a difference in their lives, so the bad kids are probably the most beloved people in the entire school. If Princeton stopped caring about grades and extracurricular activities and started admitting some of these people from the quad, it just might end up with a more likable student body." -- p.5

Another apt description of this type of girl, Stella (which I could relate to totally, minus the Catholic schoolgirl gear):

"I wouldn't say I'm unpopular because if you asked other kids about me, they would say, "She's so smart" first and "She dresses like a Catholic schoolgirl" second. They'd know who I am. And even though I don't really have any friends as far as having someone to hang out with on the weekend, everybody at my school would tell you I have lots of friends because I have so many acquaintances. The thing with acquaintances is that one acquaintance probably assumes that the other acquaintances are your best friends, and the the latter group assumes that the original acquaintance is your soul mate, and that's how everybody stays at arm's length." -- p.10

The last quote, I swear -- probably the most revealing of the reasonable thought process Stella is going through:

"I'd just rather discuss how today I had some sort of abstract revelation that showed me how arbitrary the world is, and as soon as I realized that, what was I supposed to do? Pretend it wasn't arbitrary? It's like I have X-ray goggles on that show me that Princeton is just a Kmart with a nice facade on it and John Steiner is just a skeleton with some skin (and acne, sorry) slapped on top of it. All these pieces of the puzzle are clicking together in my head. They were all floating around in my brain before, but I could never make sense of them. Every time I felt these hints of discontent I would just study a little more or do some extra credit or apply to another Ivy League college. But today, the beach ball -- it's so clear how we make everything up." -- p.19

So anyway, that's just the first 20 pages! What follows is less intense, more plot and situational dealings, less deep thought stuff (which I wish there had been more of, but oh well). The author does a really good job of tapping into a teenager's brain, and writing a book entirely from a teenage girl's perspective, so kudos to her for that!(less)

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Oct 11, 2012 Jessica rated it 4 of 5 stars

I enjoyed this book overall. I thought there were a few loose ends the author could have tied up better. I was vaguely hoping the author would have a change of heart at the end. It was such a waste of life. Her life really was not all that bad, but she seemed intent on trying to make it bad. I felt for her when she lost her parents. It seemed she had such a great relationship with them, even with their obvious flaws. In the zoo part of the book, I was so hoping she would confide in Ainsley, and...more

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Feb 18, 2009 Diane rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: general-fiction

Stella's utterly unwavering committment to her suicide decision was disturbing to me. I had to wonder about the authenticity of her lack of emotion in pursuing her plan. Regardless of how unhappy and disconnected one is, wouldn't there be a few moments of doubt, or of fear?

One of the most chilling aspects of the book, to me, was Stella' relationship with her foster parents. She went to live with them as an 11-year old girl. Her perspective of them is that they are totally "off" and are completel...more

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Sep 04, 2011 Sophia rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2011, antipathy, dropped

Only got to page 83... I just didnt care. Every single book has good reveiws and says wonderddul things on the back... what really made me laugh though was Chuck Closterman's reveiw which never really proclaimed "THIS IS GRAET"... it said something like "If so and so was a teenage goth and read proozac nation than this would be her boook" or something like that... which is so him. Anyway... the book cover lied- the prose sucks and there is very little deeper meaning. Besides, i went through taht...more

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Jan 26, 2010 {eri} rated it 2 of 5 stars Recommends it for: very few people

Recommended to {eri} by: GoodReads peeps

This book definitely had its moments but overall I felt like it was all over the place. A book about teen suicide is a hard subject to breech because it is a very sensitive and overdone topic. Stella had this weird and unnerving just lack of emotion throughout most of the book. The fact that she rarely if ever showed interest in life, despite the things she had going for her, college and sort-of boyfriend, got very old. It was interesting to see and hear things from her point of view and some of...more

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Feb 21, 2008 Holly rated it 2 of 5 stars

Please note the mention of a Mrs. Simonson. Interesting. The author went to my high school and did I good job and reminding of the bubble that is Irvine.

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Oct 02, 2007 Kim rated it 3 of 5 stars

I liked the style of writing.

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Jun 03, 2011 Laurel Hechanova rated it 5 of 5 stars

I'm kind of jealous that teenagers out there get to have Stella Parrish around while they're in high school. When I finally closed the book, it felt like the end of junior year when my best friend's family got transferred and I knew I'd probably never see her again. Parrish is a great narrator / navigator. And (spoiler? so many other people have already said it) her decision to stop living was made in the most graceful way possible. Seigel isn't recommending it. It's just a conclusion. I thought...more

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Dec 27, 2009 Brennan rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: anyone looking for a unique perspective on life

A suicide journal-the final look into a deeply emotional teenager going through the mundane motions of every day life and experiencing each present moment more vibrantly because she is not concerned with the possibility of the future. By the second chapter I was completely taken by the writing style and felt like I was actually looking into this young woman's life. An emotional portrayal of the problems that seem to engulf your world as an adolescent.

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Sep 27, 2009 Elision rated it 1 of 5 stars

Recommended to Elision by: Library "first novel" reading list

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Oct 22, 2012 Jill Jacobs rated it 4 of 5 stars

Wow....That was the only word in my head when I finished this book. I would definitely recommend this book! I had in my mind how I thought it was going to end and I was no where close to how it really ended. Stella the main character was very intriguing and very deep into her mind much more than you would expect from a high school senior. The book covers the complexities in life and family. Her foster parents have a unique angle of how expectations are not always met.

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Apr 27, 2013 Carol rated it 2 of 5 stars

She had a lot to live for. Suddenly she is depressed. No signs until the end of her senior year? Perhaps I am not empathetic enough or maybe I ALWAYS see the upside of situations, but I cannot see how her existence was so awful or that she-smart as she was-could not recognize the potential for a changed to better life....really soon.
But I must say, the parents and foster parents were well written.

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ANDREA SEIGEL is the author of two novels for adults, Like the Red Panda and To Feel Stuff, as well as the forthcoming (Sept. 2010) YA novel, The Kid Table. She lives in the Los Angeles foothills and has a massive amount of love for her stunning French Bulldog, Christmas.

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