Another amazing book. Two families live next door to each other. Their children grow up together. Chris and Emily are inseparable best friends when they are little, and then start dating when they get older. Both sets of parents are thrilled, and everything seems perfect, until the parents get a midnight call from the hospital. Emily has been shot and killed, supposedly as part of a suicide pact between the two of them. But Chris is still alive, and the police think there was no pact. The real story, it turns out, is pretty complicated.
This story, as with My Sister's Keeper, alternates between different points of view and different points in time, but it flows together beautifully. It includes Emily's point of view at different ages and right before she dies. The romance between her and Chris seems to be perfect for everyone--Chris, both sets of parents--but her. To her it was sort of like dating her brother. But she loves Chris too much to be able to tell him that. Not only that, but her parents and Chris' have every expectation that they will get married someday, and she feels heavy pressure from that.
Both sets of parents realize how little they knew about their kids, and their friendship cracks and breaks as they take sides. Chris's parents believe he would never do anything to hurt Emily. Emily's parents only know that he is alive, Emily is dead, and Chris was with her when she died.
This is another extremely thought-provoking book, as well as a tearjerker.
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