Miranda is an adolescent girl living and attending public school in New York City. Her best friend, Sal, lives in her building, and it seems as if neither of them has travelled far from what they know. There's the crazy homeless man that sleeps under the mailbox on the corner, the sandwich shop that they "work" in during their lunch break, and the gang of ruffians that terrorize passersby in front of the garage...all within a 3 block radius of their apartments. Without seeming to try too hard, Stead creates a world that I could easily visualize as a film. Weird things start happening. Miranda receives eery handwritten notes that reference events that haven't occurred...yet. When they start to realize, Miranda attempts to figure out the mystery. With catchy chapter titles that always begin with, "Things That...," one of the boys from the garage presents himself more frequently into Miranda's everyday life. Our girl's favorite book, A Wrinkle in Time, plays part and parcel to some clues as to what's going on with the notes. Perhaps it's my disdain for physics, or the reminiscence of past conversations with Gabe, Steve, and Todd that never produced exceptional fruit or clarity about the nature of time and its' continuum, but I didn't give much thought to the larger message.
Either way, I was entertained for an afternoon whilst floating in the pool in GBG.
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