Without Tess by Marcella Pixley
Hardcover, 224 pages
Published October 11th 2011
Tess and Lizzie are sisters, sisters as close as can be, who share a secret world filled with selkies, flying horses, and a girl who can transform into a wolf in the middle of the night. But when Lizzie is ready to grow up, Tess clings to their fantasies. As Tess sinks deeper and deeper into her delusions, she decides that she can’t live in the real world any longer and leaves Lizzie and her family forever. Now, years later, Lizzie is in high school and struggling to understand what happened to her sister. With the help of a school psychologist and Tess’s battered journal, Lizzie searches for a way to finally let Tess go.
My thoughts:
Great book! I enjoyed the suspensful element of wondering what happened to Tess. I also enjoyed how the author slowly made the reader aware of Tess's mental illness- it slowly dawned on me just as I imagine it slowly dawned on Tess's parents that she was not ok. The story is told from Tess's little sister's, Lizzie, point of view and it is clear that Tess's mental illness hurt Lizzie in many ways.
Very thought provoking!
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