As i've gotten pretty far into my novel Breathless by Jessica Warman, I can't stop thinking about her family life. Her brother is in and out of mental facilities and snaps at random moments. He gets upset when his father, who the two refer to as "The Ghost" because he is never at home, catches him smoking on the roof. With this anger, he sneaks over to the neighbor's backyard and almost kills himself in front of them. Now Katie has been sent to a boarding school because her alcoholic mother and workaholic father don't want her living with them. Now my dad is quite the workaholic as well. He always seems to find more and more work that can be done, even though he goes in to work at 530 am and usually doesn't get home till around 8pm or later. Jobs in education really don't require that much work time, but somehow he finds that much to do, or so he says. Katie really struggles with her dad's absence to the point where she tries to give him a nickname that makes it seem like it isn't hurting her inside, but it is. Who willingly chooses not to have her father be an active part in her life? No one. While Katie dreaded this new school, she has found comfort in the fact that the people there stick around and are always there. Duh, its a boarding school. They really don't have anywhere else to go. She awkwardly bonds with her roommate Madeline Moon once she realizes that some peoples' lives are even more screwed up than her own. I just liked identifying with Katie on her views of her father, and I am curious to find out exactly how their relationship ends.
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