In this book, a woman finds a short message from her 14-year-old daughter on the fridge saying that she'd left and not to try to find her. The parents are devastated and start up a social media campaign to help get the word out that this girl is missing and to generate tips. This opens the family up to incredible public scrutiny and complicates the matter for them. The point of view switches between the mother as she's trying to deal with this whole situation and diary entries written by the (frankly dumb as a post) daughter as she sets out on her own.
I actually really liked this. It was interesting to see a seemingly normal family be pulled apart to reveal...actually, a completely normal family! But even though your problems are so normal they might even be considered utterly pedestrian doesn't mean they're not still real problems with real consequences. And it was also interesting and sadly believable to see how completely normal behaviors and problems get completely spun out into something new and lurid on the internet, and both the gleeful cruelty and the generosity and helpfulness of complete strangers when stuff like this pops up.
I actually really liked this. It was interesting to see a seemingly normal family be pulled apart to reveal...actually, a completely normal family! But even though your problems are so normal they might even be considered utterly pedestrian doesn't mean they're not still real problems with real consequences. And it was also interesting and sadly believable to see how completely normal behaviors and problems get completely spun out into something new and lurid on the internet, and both the gleeful cruelty and the generosity and helpfulness of complete strangers when stuff like this pops up.
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