(4 out of 5)
Chopsticks is a compilation of pictures, IM messages, postcards, letters, newspaper clippings, etc. You can sit down and read this book in one or two hours. When you are finished you can't help but start over to see what you missed because you aren't sure if some things were real or not. I like to think that they were but after reading some reviews and conferring with a co-worker I think I might be wrong.
Glory is a piano prodigy. After her mother's death she retreats into her music, and her father has raised her to play sold out shows. Brillant and lonely Glory is drawn to, Frank, the next door neighbor boy. She loses herself in his paintings, mix CD's, and late night IM conversations. Soon, Frank becomes both her connection to the world and her escape from reality. Before long Glory snaps only being able to play the song "Chopsticks". When Glory disapperars nothing is what it seems. And we must decide what is real, what is fiction, and what has been madness all along...
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