How I Live now

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown Kids Reference 0-week checkout	R Printz Award 2005	0-week checkout	Library Use Only

To get away from her pregnant stepmother in New York City, fifteen-year-old Daisy goes to England to stay with her aunt and cousins, with whom she instantly bonds, but soon war breaks out and rips apart the family while devastating the land.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

weird submitted by Motomori on June 25, 2012, 5:20pm I think this book was a weird and really creepy. Overall, it was pretty interesting.

Okay submitted by Nicole Auerbach on August 18, 2012, 11:08am It was an okay book. Not a lot of punctuation. It was kind of hard to understand what was happening in the book. It was short, and kind of simple. Some of the charcters were really weird, too. Maybe 3 out of 5 stars.

Strange but beautiful submitted by prlhw on August 28, 2012, 2:29pm The language and structure of the text of this book is almost lyrical, metaphorical, and all-around deeply moving. The content of the story itself is a little offbeat, with the whole cousin-getting-with-cousin thing, but do not let it disguise or ruin the intense beauty of Rosoff's unique style of writing for you. I really enjoyed what she does with punctuation in the novel; keep in mind that these unique punctuation decisions are not all for random aesthetics, but instead, everything from the lack of punctuation to that big black circle has a significant meaning in this book.

old submitted by nicenora2371 on August 30, 2013, 10:33pm this is kind of d book

Weird and not that great submitted by steveiew on June 22, 2018, 11:43am I wasn't a big fan of this book. It was hard to get over the incest between cousins and the premise in general was hard to go along with.

Very Intense Story submitted by jgetty on July 19, 2020, 3:59pm I kept looking at the cover to check "was this really a TEEN book?", and yes it is. It also won a Printz award, so that's why I read it. However, I was pretty shocked at the very intense descriptions of suffering in this book, it was pretty upsetting to read, sometimes I had to kinda skip over some intense, shocking descriptions. Also, for a TEEN book, this had very complex relationships, a lot of fear, eating issues, abandonment, lots of heavy topics, and like I said very intense disturbing descriptions of suffering. The main thing that upset me was the very intense descriptions of things that were heavy for a TEEN book, I thought. I did keep carrying on and reading until the end of the book, because I had to find out how it would finish the story and what would happen to the characters. It was pretty exhausting, even the ending. I would not recommend for a TEEN.