When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead


My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Tiny, tremendous book! True story – I was reading this morning in the waiting room at the doctor's office. I'd spent the whole train ride up bitching to myself about how these guys are always overscheduled and without fail they're running at least half an hour behind. So I'm sitting there, about 90% of the way through my audiobook, and my name gets called. And I'm all, ". . . you're early," and the tech is all, "it's weird, isn't it?" and honest to God I was thisclose to telling him to come back in half an hour so I could finish this book.

New York, 1979. Twelve-year-old Miranda starts getting notes that say things like, "I'm coming to save your friend's life."

This is a bitty little book, but every second of it works. Miranda is a perfect twelve-year-old, and this book does a whole lot of sixth-grader relationship work in a very small space. And behind that and the wonderful cast of characters is another story, a creepier, scarier, sadder one. It didn't matter that I'd figured out most of it, because I still got chills when things started snapping together.

A book about A Wrinkle in Time, and growing up, and moments of time like diamonds, crystallized forever. Just tremendous.

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