HYBRID CAR

Hybrid Car



Hybrid Car

David Yaffe has accidentally killed his beloved girlfriend during his final year of high-school. The circumstances reveal themselves in small flashes throughout his narrative, but the main story is about his eleven-year-old cousin Lily (Bernard Alger 2002). David boards with her family while repeating his final school year away from his old home and the bad memories (Patricia 2010).

But his room in the house was once Karen's, Lily's sister who had committed apparent suicide five years before, aged eighteen, and was found by Lily (SueAnn 2006). David senses her ghostly presence on many occasions, with her urgent message to 'help Lily'. Lily meanwhile is one very disturbed girl. With a hatred and cunning beyond her years she turns David's life into a daily nightmare (Anita 2006).

In the story after committing the murder David was sent to Massachusetts. There he is forced to deal with both his past and his 11-year-old cousin Lily, who has secrets of her own (Bernard Alger 2002). Neither Lily nor her parents have recovered from the suicide of Lily's older sister four years earlier. As David begins school, he moves from numbness to real involvement with his surroundings, particularly as Lily's behavior toward him becomes more bizarre (SueAnn 2006).

The story culminates with David saving Lily as she tries to destroy herself because she murdered her sister. This suspense/mystery story keeps the reader wanting more of David's story as it is revealed bit by bit throughout the book (Patricia 2010). It gradually becomes clear that David and Lily are very much alike-they must both live with having killed. Adult characters are one dimensional but true to form (Anita 2006). This story will appeal to the dark side of loss and hurt. Killing is not an answer in both cases the ...