Keeping the Moon, Sarah Dessen 19

I just started this realistic fiction and am very intrigued by the first chapter. I have stumbled on yet another very honest narrator. She is open about her history and the grip is still has on her. Most people would assume that becoming healthier and making better choices in regards to your lifestyle would be a positive thing. Most people would wish to be better off, living in a house with a pool and personal cook instead of sleeping in the family car, not Nicole (call her Colie). All these changes that are usually seen as improvements have caused a distance between her and her mother who use to be very close and happy spending lots of time together. Now she has been shipped off to live with her aunt for the summer while her mother promotes her new line of fitness products. Colie tells us in the first lines of the book, "My name is Nicole Sparks. Welcome to the first day of the worst summer of my life" (1). What will happen to her next? Why does she feel this way?