![]() ![]() Influenced by this photo, Maddy decides to risk it all and go to Hawaii with Olly. One day, Pauline shows Maddy a photo of their family in Maui when Maddy was only months old. When her mother discovers Maddy has been secretly meeting Olly, she fires Carla and bans Maddy from ever seeing Olly again, but they continue secretly talking. They begin meeting in Maddy's house regularly, and at one point Maddy even goes outside for a few seconds. One day, Carla sneaks Olly into Maddy's house, and the two meet face to face for the first time. Meanwhile, Olly's father is abusive and Kara has a smoking problem. Olly befriends Maddy, and the two begin to message each other online. She watches them from the window and learns that the family includes a father, mother, daughter named Kara, and a son named Olly. ![]() Maddy's life changes when a family moves in next door. Her world consists of her mother Pauline, her nurse Carla, and the books she finds comfort in with her father and brother having died a long time ago in a car accident. The story follows 18-year-old Madeline Whittier, a half Japanese, half African-American 18-year-old who is being treated by her doctor mother for severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), and therefore is not allowed to leave her house or interact with anything that has not been "sanitized". ![]()
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