An Onyx Book, Penguin Publishing, 1999
paper,$12.00
301 pgs.
Rating: 2.5
First line: "The girl's hair was white below the scarf, now a scarf of snow, and there was a fine rime of ice on her eyebrows."
The story starts with Andi Olivier out in the wilds of the Sandia Mountains near Santa Fe, NM, rescuing trapped coyotes and healing them. Andi Olivier is the name she gave herself when she saw the initials AO on her backpack. She has no memory of her past, only that she woke up one morning in a B & B in Santa Fe with a man who was supposedly her "Daddy." She knew this wasn't true. But she had no idea at all about her background, her name or even her age, which she guesses to be about 17.
Then she meets Mary, and lonely 14 year old, and together they set out to figure out Andi's backstory. They become close friends immediately, the fearless, clever, implacable Andi and the questioning, not-so-sure -of-herself, Mary. And what an adventure they set out on...following the clues to Idaho and rescuing dogs, intimidating bad guys, making friends with unlikely characters, white-water rafting, witnessing dog-fighting and illegal big-game hunting, murdering.... about as unlikely a story as any two teenagers could be a part of. But...well.....not exactly silly, or even ridiculous, but....improbable.
There was some great writing included, like:
"Yet Mary, who had not been violated, felt her own life to be a tangle of conflicting needs. Her sister, Angela, had always talked about "centering," finding one's "center." Mary felt she had no center. She was the Scrabble letters spilled across the table, letters she could not put together to spell anything sensible. Andi, on the other hand, had mastered the game; as if magnetized, the letters flew together."
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