![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() All isn’t lost, though, when she befriends her next-door neighbor, and by proxy, the boy from the next house over: Smitty, or as their less tactful classmates call him, “The Alien”. It’s bad enough that Ginny’s big brother has moved halfway across the country, but now she has to move, too – and start a new high school in her senior year? Yikes. It’s a story of friendship, family, healing, grief, abuse, and most of all, love – in all of its various forms. It is wonderfully progressive for its time period (Idk about you guys, but most of my 90s YA experience has been problematic AF), it has a beautiful plot that offers up the reminder that you have no idea what a person has been through, or what fine hells they have walked. I have literally no complaints about this book. It is easily the most underrated book I’ve ever read in my life and I would implore everyone to pick it up. I could hear Paul telling me, “Never, never make the mistake of thinking you’re the only alien on the planet.”įirst of all, I can’t believe this is the first time I’m reviewing this book, because it’s honestly been on my “favorite books of all time” list since, I don’t know, 2005? Maybe earlier? It’s an amazing book and I’ve reread it probably a dozen times, and it never gets old. ![]()
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