Living on Impulse
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5.0 • 2 Ratings
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
A heartfelt coming-of-age story that reminds us that even when we are at our lowest, the power to heal is within all of us and it invariably begins with forgiveness.
Was she being too impulsive? Maybe.
But who cared about that? It felt good.
Mia Morrow loves that feeling. The electrical charge, the dizziness, the throbbing in her temples—they’re all part of the impulse high. That’s why instead of caring about grades and colleges like her friends, Mia lives for chasing boys, cliff-diving, and occasionally snatching things off department store shelves. But when Mia gets caught shoplifting a pair of designer sandals, she’ll have to face the consequences of her impulses for the first time.
From losing her friends to taking a job in a college lab breeding flies, Mia must abandon the girl she thought she was in order to seek out the person she truly wants to be.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In 15-year-old Mia Morrow, Haycak creates a realistic portrait of a teenage girl whose life is spiraling out of control. First, Mia is caught shoplifting and, as punishment, must pay the store $300. Her penchant for partying and aversion to studying drive a wedge between her and her two best friends. Additionally, her alcoholic mother has relapsed, and her grandfather, the one person who seems to have faith in her, is dying. At first, readers won't necessarily sympathize with impulsive "bad girl" Mia, but her story is compelling enough to keep reading, if only to discover how low Mia will sink. With painstaking yet gratifying care, Haycak (Red Palms) eventually starts Mia along the path of self-realization and forgiveness. Mia finds common ground with her mother, discovering they are both "reaching for something outside themselves to cure what was wrong on the inside," and forgives her friends as well as herself. Readers who stick with Mia until the end will be glad they did. Ages 12 up.
