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The Possibility of Fireflies
From the moment I started reading this book last night, I could not put it down. It quickly became my number 3 favorite book, and I wasn’t even halfway through it. By the time I finished the last page and had put it down, it became tied for my number 2 favorite. The setting is 1987, and centers around the life of a 14 year old girl, Ellie, and how she is forced to grow up quicker than what she would have liked.
Her father left the family when she was younger, and her mother changed entirely after that. Her sister Gwen is popular, well-liked, while Ellie doesn’t really have any friends, and doesn’t think too highly of herself. When their mother gets abusive- verbally and physically- the two sisters each cope with it their own ways.
Ellie keeps everything bottled up inside, lies, and pretends that everything is fine, finding peace watching the fireflies outside her house. Gwen, on the other hand, turns to alcohol, drugs, and partying. Ellie tries her best to keep the peace between their dysfunctional family, while Gwen and their mother are often antagonizing one another. When a good-looking musician moves in next door, Ellie feels like she is in love with him, and does everything she can to be with him- despite their 6 year age difference, while she continues to do her best to save the family she dearly misses.
This story is full of humor, heartbreak, despair, loneliness, and brings into light the abuse that is so real in this world.
Her father left the family when she was younger, and her mother changed entirely after that. Her sister Gwen is popular, well-liked, while Ellie doesn’t really have any friends, and doesn’t think too highly of herself. When their mother gets abusive- verbally and physically- the two sisters each cope with it their own ways.
Ellie keeps everything bottled up inside, lies, and pretends that everything is fine, finding peace watching the fireflies outside her house. Gwen, on the other hand, turns to alcohol, drugs, and partying. Ellie tries her best to keep the peace between their dysfunctional family, while Gwen and their mother are often antagonizing one another. When a good-looking musician moves in next door, Ellie feels like she is in love with him, and does everything she can to be with him- despite their 6 year age difference, while she continues to do her best to save the family she dearly misses.
This story is full of humor, heartbreak, despair, loneliness, and brings into light the abuse that is so real in this world.