Recovery Road

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While she is in a rehabilitation facility for drug and alcohol abuse, seventeen-year-old Maddie meets Stewart, who is also in treatment, and they begin a relationship, which they try to maintain after they both get out.

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After Rehab submitted by Caser on August 12, 2011, 4:52pm Blake Nelson gets it. He carves his characters down to the essentials of their authentic personalities, and presents them raw, with their flaws and their charms in their veiled thoughts and imperfect speech. The adults aren't as detached and clueless as in much of teen fiction, and sometimes they even know what they're talking about in terms of giving advice. My favorite adult quote to the protagonist, Maddie when she's going off about her classmates, "if you meet three a**holes in a day, you're the a**hole".

The chapters are short and the narrative crackles along nicely. Highly recommended to people who like to say, "I don't like to read".