While the book starts off slowly and the plot never quite comes together, the ultimately hopeful ending may satisfy readers. Dane’s emotional ups and downs are conveyed realistically and present a moving depiction of grief and mental health. A crush on Ophelia, the girl next door, is one of the only things that fuels him, but she’s warned him that any relationship she enters will have a pre-planned end date so no one can get hurt. He lacks support from his mother but has positive influences in his life in the form of his therapist and one of his teachers. An unmotivated student who’s not planning on going to college, Dane ponders what there is to live for. He’s angry and resentful of his mother for moving on too quickly and dating his father’s best friend and business partner, Chuck. He occasionally still texts his dad-and receives kind messages back from whomever now has that phone number. In this contemporary twist on Hamlet, 17-year-old Dane Riley struggles with depression after his father’s death.Īfter seeing a coyote wandering in his upscale suburb of McLean, Virginia, Dane starts to imagine it’s the reincarnation of his father, who died from cancer less than a year ago.
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