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      Who We Are Instead

      by Kyla Stone
      Published
      Jan 2017
      Main Genre
      General Fiction General Fiction
      Pages
      336
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      Twenty-one-year-old Lena McKenna thought she escaped her past when she earned a photography scholarship to a top university. It's been two years since she's been home. Two years since she's seen her troubled younger sister Lux or set foot in the house long haunted by the memory of her mother's suicide.
       
      Everything changes the day her father suffers a massive heart attack. Putting her dreams on hold, Lena rushes home--only to discover that Lux has run away. As she cares for her dying father, Lena reconstructs the past, struggling to understand the betrayals and secrets that broke her family.
       
      Life is further complicated when Lena runs into a former crush, rekindling a romance she never thought possible. But how can she believe in love when everything around her is falling apart?
       
      Meanwhile, eighteen-year-old Lux will do anything to forget. Anything. Nothing keeps the darkness at bay, not her sweet and loyal boyfriend, her love of astronomy, or her reckless descent into self-destruction.
       
      As their father's condition worsens, Lux leaves a trail of devastation in her wake. Lena must choose: escape her past and leave her sister--and her chance at love--behind, or turn and face the demons threatening to destroy them both.
       
      Who We Are Instead explores the volatile relationship between sisters, the legacy of mental illness, and the healing power of hope and redemption. For fans of Jay Asher's Thirteen Reasons Why and John Green's Looking for Alaska.

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      General Fiction

      Themes

      Coming of Age

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