As in Eleanor & Park Rainbow Rowell creates characters who feel broken in some way. But she does it in such a way that draw you and make you cheer for them to win.
In FanGirl you meet twin sisters Cather and Wren. They are freshman in college. Wren is confident, sassy and outgoing. She wants to try being a person apart from her twin even if they are going to the same college. Cather is an introvert who is having a hard time leaving home and being apart from her twin.
The girls have a mother who walked out on them when they were 8 and a bipolar father who did his best to raise the girls on his own.
Outward appearances can be deceiving and sometimes those who seem the most put together are the ones falling apart in the worst way. And how we see ourselves isn't necessarily how others see us.
What Rainbow does so well is write in such a way that you feel like you are in the skin of her main characters. Healing, honest, heartbreaking.
Cather is such an amazing young woman and it takes her a long time to figure out her worth. Along the way you will fall in love with her.
(Finished December 26, 2014)
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