In Jasmine Warga's My Heart and Other Black Holes, Aysel lingers in a place between realistic and suicidal. She struggles to endure daily life after her family's reputation is wrecked by her fathers decisions and proves that her understanding of the universe, physics, and all their entirety are just drawing her more towards oblivion. However, Aysel does not want to find oblivion on her own. She meets Rowan via the Internet and he shares the same hopelessness that she does. They find friendship and love and begin to put pieces back together, together.
My Heart and Other Black Holes is certainly comparable to Falling Into Place. It features a similar lead heroine, a girl troubled by an intense understanding of the vast universe with an itch to end it all and experience the untouched part of physics- nothingness. However, this novel, unlike Falling Into Place, deals deals with an internet relationship and a similarly troubled teen friend/love interest, Rowan. The fact that two teens are enduring similar wounds in this novel helps me relate to it, somehow. I believe it is because one whiny teen sounds simply whiny while two sound like they've got a common problem that they're trying to solve together. Now, the novel was dark to say the very least. It dealt with heavy subject matter in a non-subtle way. It is the kind of novel so realistic and blunt that it easily spark goosebumps.
My Heart and Other Black Holes is certainly comparable to Falling Into Place. It features a similar lead heroine, a girl troubled by an intense understanding of the vast universe with an itch to end it all and experience the untouched part of physics- nothingness. However, this novel, unlike Falling Into Place, deals deals with an internet relationship and a similarly troubled teen friend/love interest, Rowan. The fact that two teens are enduring similar wounds in this novel helps me relate to it, somehow. I believe it is because one whiny teen sounds simply whiny while two sound like they've got a common problem that they're trying to solve together. Now, the novel was dark to say the very least. It dealt with heavy subject matter in a non-subtle way. It is the kind of novel so realistic and blunt that it easily spark goosebumps.