Meanwhile, back at the hole, a man appears and at first the girl in the hole thinks he is going to rescue her, but he is not. There are things about this moment that I like: She has an instinct and trusts it, and her instinct is proven right. She runs into a man who she at first thinks is going to help her and slowly she realizes that he is not, in fact, going to help her. Then, one of the girls falls into a hole that is clearly meant to be a trap – but for what – or who? So they separate and the other one must try and make her way back to get help. From the get go, this trip seems like a bad idea, but they persist and into the Appalachian mountains they go with a map, an inhaler, and very little experience among them to take a trip of this nature. They have a list of unspoken grievances that come up and they use their words and the past to sling arrows at one another in the ways that far too many of us do. The book begins with these two girls who are supposed to have been best friends bitching at one another in the ways that toxic friends do. While in the woods they are pursued by madmen. By thinking about the girl.The premise is this: two friends have just graduated and are going on a camping trip in the mountains before separating for college. People wondered who'd turned on the floodlights. And by the time an hour had passed, the sky would be filled with so many stars that it would wake the neighbors. And four became eight, and eight became sixteen, and so on, in the greatest mathematical equation the universe had ever seen. And then he'd wish her name again, and the stars would double into four. And the boy would make a wish on it, and the wish would be her name.Īt the sound of her name, a second star would appear. When he'd look out his window at night, he would start with one. He couldn't bring the girl with him, so he brought the stars. As if she were the one keeping them illuminated. And it didn't matter how many songs or poems had already been written about them, because whenever he thought about the girl, the stars shone brighter. And he began to wonder if the moon would help him unravel the mystery of the beautiful girl. And the boy watched the girl grow more and more perfect, more and more beautiful with each passing year. In the house next door, there lived a boy. And she was mysterious and she was perfect, in that way that girls who talk to moons are. “Once upon a time, there was a girl who talked to the moon.
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