Review:

Tiffany is driving home to California from Florida for the break and ends up with an impromptu road trip partner in the form of Sunny, who's a friend of a friend. I feel like that's a terrible summary, but plot-wise that is what happens. Like with The Circle I Made in the previous chapter, I think that elapses really has a gift for capturing the sides of the girls that aren't so visible to the cameras and to us. Capturing their nuances, so to speak. And she says a lot in what's unsaid - she doesn't sketch out all of the characters' thoughts and feelings, but lets the reader steep on them - which I think is powerful.


Excerpt:

Tiffany sidled up to the curb, put her relic of a minivan in park, and began to rap her long pink fingernails on the steering wheel, trying not to stare. She gave up after a second and honked the horn. The couple didn't jump apart cartoonishly like she expected - instead they slid apart, languidly, casually. Tiffany had half a mind to count the number of the people perched variously around the parking lot who could witness this particularly public groping session if they looked this way, but she only got to three before the girl had shifted her attention to Tiffany, wide eyes blinking at her, one of the boy's arms still wrapped around her.

"Uh, hi. Sorry about that. Are you Sunny?"

"Yeah," confirmed Sunny, breaking into a grin. "You're Tiffany, then? Guess we're going on an adventure."