Thursday, September 11, 2014
The book Fallout by Ellen Hopkins finished the trilogy about Kristina Haskins, a girl - now woman - who had a once-promising childhood that was completely shut down after a court-ordered visit to her father's house which led to an introduction to crystal meth when she was in high school. The points of view from her oldest three of five kids, Hunter, Autumn, and Summer, described the consequences of Kristina's long string of bad choices, including drug trafficking, robbery, and multiple bad relationships, using meth the entire time. The almost-fully-grown kids lay out the problems they had developed because of their mother's bad habits and how it affected their lives, as well as how isolated they were from their relatives, from facts, and from each other, because of Kristina's history as well as each of their fathers. Crank and Glass were about the start and development of one hard life, but this story shows just how much more than a single person can be affected by the fallout from drug use, realistic as these tales are unfathomable.
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