Book 41 of 2012: The Rest of her Life by Laura Moriarty. This book reads very much like a Jodie Picoult novel-which it ought to, as I found it on a "similar to JP's novels booklist". A teen-aged girl gets into a car accident and accidentally kills a classmate, and her mother struggles to have a relationship with her, recalling her vow to be unlike her own mother. The book explores (really well, in my opinion) how tragedies can often illuminate to us how we're actually perceived by people, and the real state of our relationships with the people we love. It could have been a bit longer, I think, because it ended with a sort of random foreshadowing (I'm not sure if the author intends on writing a sequel), and one of the characters was really under-developed and needlessly unlikeable in my opinion, but it was still a really well-done book.
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