Warga, Jasmine
MY HEART AND OTHER BLACK HOLES
New York : Balzer + Bray, 2015
IL YA
ISBN 0062324675

Kinetic energy, always in motion. Variables, equations, then answers: making the complicated uncomplicated. This is why I love physics. But if energy cannot be created nor destroyed, what about the physics of death? It makes my stomach churn, but I can’t lose my nerve. How much longer can I stand to be my father’s daughter, my father who murdered the town hero? I can’t take the chance that I’m in for the same fate. I see it in the way everyone looks at me, whispers, ignores. Even my mom and her new family. It’ll be better for everyone when I’m not here, especially for me. The website Smooth Passages is helping me. I think I found my suicide partner, Roman. I didn’t think anyone else had the gravity of problems like me, but I found out his might be worse. So we’re the perfect pair. But now I can’t stop thinking about how he actually cares about me and has never once mentioned my father to me. Sometimes I think I start to see some light through this black hole, but it’s only because of Roman. And suicide pacts are pretty final. So much for making the complicated uncomplicated. (Prepared by: Jamie Gregory, James F. Byrnes High School, Jamie.gregory@spart5.net  South Carolina Young Adult Book nominee 2017)