Summary

Dutch teen Emilia is understandably humiliated by her father's flirtation with a teenager, and she's outraged that her dreamy, artistic mother doesn't seem to care, so she buckles down the wordt of her OCD anxieties and boards a plane filled with germs to go stay in New York. Once there, Emilia finds herself without a place to live, and she's lucky to run intto a nice teen and his little sister who take her and another boy in when they realize Hurricane Sandy is coming fast. What follows is a sweet, cozy story of burgeoning friendships, set against the stark, dramatic backdrop of a city shut down by weather.

Opinion about the book

Woltz cleverly sets up parallels in terms of various exteernal conditions changing people in surprising ways. The book's fierce anti-internet stance is somewhat heavy-handed, but when the focus is on these diverse four and their pinballing off one another in a small apartment, this is an exceptional book. The descripitons of a small community being built within a home within a neighborhood within a massive city, all of which are enduring many of the same hardships, are gripping, and they will likely make the aftermath of that hurricane much more vivid for teen who were nowhere near the event.