![]() Told in the alternating perspectives of the two girls, Dess and Hope navigate their uneasy new relationships with Dess lashing out with barbed remarks and general hostility, and Hope responding with hurt and resentment. So do Dess and Hope form an instant bond and become true sisters to each other easily? Nope. Hope has been loved and cared for by both parents in a comfortably affluent home for all her life, Dess lives in a constant state of anxious stress- her drug addicted mother is going to testify against her nasty felon of a father, and it's easy for Dess to imagine him coming to take his anger out on her. Hope and Dess are the same age, and the same gender, but don't have much else in common. ![]() Hope's parents took in Odessa's little brother several years ago, and now have opened their home to Dess as well. ![]() 9, 2016) is the story of two 15-year-old girls, Hope and Odessa, who are forced to live together by fate (in the form of Hope's parents). Davis (Knopf Books for Young Readers, upper MG/YA, Feb. ![]()
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