The double life as an argument for one of those stories that presents us with tightrope walkers, in an impossible balance. The author Jay asher moving in that land of his of impossible loves.
The routine, with its daily reality, is turned upside down for the young Sierra at the moment when she has to leave Oregon to travel many kilometers south, to California. But that change brings her closer to a new perspective on the world brought by her closeness to Caleb.
Caleb is not the son-in-law that any mother would like to have. His past is anchored in a background that has him marked between guilt and the need to escape from something that was, but he knows perfectly well that it was only a mistake in a stage of his life consumed by the madness of youth.
Sierra finds in Caleb a new cause. He knows that he is a good boy, but he also knows that the prejudices of his family would never admit his incorporation as a political family. And when the fit becomes difficult but feelings make it impossible to adjust to what others expect of you, unfolding appears.
Sierra lives that second life, and among the surreptitious feelings are further evoked, the feeling that Caleb is that special being with whom he would want to be all his life becomes a rational idea, a desire for the present and the future.
When the reality of that second life begins to be glimpsed for Sierra's closest surroundings, the storm looms over her. They all insist on making him see the impossible in his relationship with Caleb, drawing the shadow of doubt on the boy, sensing evil intentions in him.
Only she knows that everyone is wrong about her new love. In addition to accompanying him on a tortuous path towards liberation from guilt, Sierra has found in Caleb his own lifeline, that other life that he somehow longed for, and that had he left it for later, he would have strongly repented.
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