Embarking on a life in reverse after Dan's suicide, the Rider moves backward in time while enjoying simple pleasures and attempting to change a past marked by a disappointed little sister, an overwhelmed mother, and an artistic girl with purple hair.
As a small-town girl navigating the sophomore social scene at an elite boarding school, the reader makes decisions that determine the course of the story.
Schizophrenia, the most severe of the mental disorders, usually begins in late adolescence or young adulthood. A patient's first symptoms may be hallucinations, such as hearing voices that sound as real as those of friends and family. Or they may be delusions, such as believing that aliens are sending information to him via the radio or through television programs.
As the girlfriend of the president's son, Jackie, a senior at an exclusive Washington, D.C., prep school, looks to her best friends, the Capital Girls, for support when she becomes the target of a stalker and experiences a devastating betrayal.