Age: High School+
First line prologue: "The people of Bone Gap called Finn a lot of things, but none of them was his name."
First line: "The corn was talking to him again."

Ruby hit the mark on magical realism, blending an intriguing world of nightmare and fantasy with the real world. Her writing was magnificent. However, I could not get into the love story between Petey and Finn as much as I wanted. And when Finn's disability is revealed it felt so fake.

I think I came into this book with the wrong mindset. I wish I read this book as a culturally meaningful novel, full of depth and insight into beauty and obsession. Perhaps the magical realism threw me off but maybe Laura Ruby should receive even more acclaim for her daring presentation of love and beauty in a lightly fantastical world.