I'm not really sure what to say about this. I half liked it - I'd give it more like a 2.5 if I could. It was really difficult to tell when the story took place because there's all these really old mentions in the book. The narrator is writing to people like Judy Garland and Amelia Earhart, talking about how her sister who was only three years older loved River Phoenix and Kurt Cobain, and her Aunt loves Mr. Ed. Not that it's not at all plausible -- but for a story that's (I think) supposed be set sometime around 2013/2014, it doesn't seem exactly centered in our century. For instance, mentions of technology are few and far between, as if added as afterthoughts.

To add to that, the premise of the story, the main character's dead sister is stretched out for so long that by the time you get there, you've pretty much guessed what happened anyway.

It feels like there's a lot of baby boomer sentimentality in a novel that's supposed to be about a Gen Z/Founders generation kid.