A moving, mysterious coming-of-age story. Kirkus Reviews
Sixteen year old Krista is still grieving the untimely death of her mother when her father's new girlfriend moves into their home. He's already moved on and wants Krista to do the same, but she's not ready to resume a normal life yet. Distancing herself from those around her, Krista spends all of her time obsessively watching a mysterious house, the house at 758.
When a fellow classmate, Jake, takes a sudden interest in her, Krista feels excited for the first time in two years, but feelings of guilt consume her, and she ends up pushing Jake away.?It isn't until her grandfather makes a surprise visit from Venezuela that Krista is finally able to confront her grief and begin to let things go.
Sixteen-year-old Krista is having a hard time. Shes still grieving the recent death of her mother when her fathers girlfriend, Marie, moves into their home, and Krista feels like theres no one she can talk to about her sadness. To make matters worse, her best friend, Lyla, is heading to Maine for the summer to spend time with her grandparents.
Krista feels pressure from the people around her to resume a normal life; her father wants her to find an activity to occupy her summer, and her neighbor encourages her to return to therapy. However, Krista doesnt feel ready to be normal again; shed rather hang out in a tent she'd pitched on her roof, or sit in her car obsessively watching a mysterious house, the house at 758.
Just when things start to feel too hard for her to bear, she runs into Jake, a fellow classmate and the cute sales associate at a store where she shoplifts. A young romance quickly forms, but Krista has a hard time opening up to Jake. She remains guarded and manages to push him away.
One day, her father informs her that her grandfather, a Hungarian Holocaust survivor who lives in Venezuela, is comilãe
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