Perfect Break - inside look

Yes, I already posted my review of this amazing story in prose. But I talked with the author and got her approval to post some excerpts too. Hopefully you will be able to see how this touched me so deeply.

And it goes on like that. Each girl talking to her best friend. The names they use reflecting how they feel. As each of them tries to understand, and tries to reach out across the void that is growing between them.

Saint Helens DNA

Claire,

I looked

Up Mount

Saint Helens

After your

Message.

The pictures

Are something!

I wish I could

Have been there,

Coated in a real

Substance that others

Could easily see. Then

They’d know and there

Wouldn’t be this weird

Disconnect. I don’t know

How to talk about this stuff

Right now. My mom told me I

Look too much like him. I went

To the mirror and I tried to

Wipe the him part off my face

But it’s stuck. It’s in me. It’s

DNA.

Mads

Faulty

Madison,

You look like

You to me. Not

Your mom or your

Dad, truly. Just

Like you.

When my mom was

Dying, my grandma

Yelled at me in the

Hospital. I’d forgotten

To put on my mask,

And she lost it.

She told me I was

Killing mom, and it

Was my fault. My fault

My fault.

It played in my head

A long time, Madness,

Until she asked for

My forgiveness. I guess

What I’m trying to say is

When everything falls

Apart, people are just

Pieces of who they should

Be.

And eventually we come

Back together again.

Maybe a different shape,

Like now there is Rachel,

But still a family puzzle.

I hope this makes sense.

Sorry people are cruel

When they are freaking out.

Love,

Claire Bear

Puzzle This

Lair of Claire,

I’m sorry. I

Shouldn’t have

Brought up my

Mom. I didn’t mean

To make you think

Of your mom. I

Don’t know.

They told me

I’m going with

Him when he leaves

He’s going to rent

An apartment. Where?

Don’t know.

I have a bruise

On my face, it’s

Nothing. I’m

Having a clumsy

Summer. I’m glad

Your family is

Coming back together.

I’m thinking

About your

Puzzle.

Maddie

I ordered this book in paperback. And when I get it, I will hug it. And then I will donate one of them to my local library. Because more people need to see this, read this, hear this, remember this, know this.

It's not your fault

Another thing I will hug when I finally get to see her, is this amazing woman.

Cause the happiness I have in my heart IS all her fault. And so is this book. And a lot of other books I have greatly enjoyed. Check her out. Hopefully I will be able to have her on in the future to do an interview too. Then we can find out what 's up with her gnomes too. And her #00bananas

Anaïs Chartschenko hails from the Canadian wilderness. She has come to enjoy such modern things as electric tea kettles. Her published works include:

Bright Needles

The Whisper Collector

The Weightless One

Perfect Break

Books

Buy Perfect Break: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0786YKVK4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1513065197&sr=8-1&keywords=perfect+break+anais+chartschenko

Buy The Weightless One: https://www.amazon.com/Weightless-One-Ana%C3%AFs-Chartschenko-ebook/dp/B06XRXYWHJ/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8

Buy The Whisper Collector:

https://www.amazon.com/Whisper-Collector-Ana%C3%AFs-Chartschenko-ebook/dp/B01NCSGZGL/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8

Buy Bright Needles:

https://www.amazon.com/Bright-Needles-Anais-Chartschenko-ebook/dp/B00J49LM1O/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8