Brighton is in the midst of her own quarter-life crisis, and she decides to take a road trip.
I'm going on a cross-country road trip next year.
Hall has an exquisite style that flows beautifully off the page. I could feel Brighton's angst and disquiet about not finding her home, feeling an island in the middle of no where. I also liked how her beau seemed to be struggling to find his home as well, and the two of them found it within each other.
Brighton is a rock star's daughter who has never quite found where she fit in. Every year she drives from her home in Manhattan to UCLA, aiming to hit all fifty states by the time she graduates. On this latest trip, her mother forces her to take a buddy with her - another son of a rock star who is a rock star in his own right. The concept is a bit of a stretch, but I let it go since it was the central point to the plot, and who doesn't love a bit of imagination.
They set off across the country, with Alex fighting his own substance abuse demons while Brighton struggles to let him in. Brighton has a temper, and at times, it seemed to show up out of the blue. She and Alex seemed to have a rocky relationship as well, going from friends to enemies at the drop of a hat.
The pacing was a bit odd as well, with mostly quiet episodes in the backwoods towns in the desert (HAH SEE WHAT I DID THERE) and a random middle-of-the-book excursion to Vegas that threw off the mood of the book. The story also did not end at the end of the summer, but rather, we got a whole year compressed into a single chapter, which didn't serve the story.
All of that being said, I cannot say enough about how this story resonated with me personally, and I definitely have a few girlfriends in mind with whom it would also resonate.
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