You Know Where To Find Me
by Rachel Cohn

    YOU KNOW WHERE TO FIND ME by Rachel Cohn
    Category:  Contemporary
    Age Recommendation:  Grades 9+
    Release Date:  3/4/08
    Publisher:  Simon & Schuster
    Reviewed by:  Dianna Geers
    Rating:  5 Stars


    Laura and Miles grew up together.  They were cousins who lived so close that Miles could sneak out of her
    room on scary, stormy nights and escape to the safety of Laura’s bed.  They spent hours in their tree house and
    hiding out in their favorite bookstore.  As little girls became adolescents, though, being related and living near
    each other didn’t guarantee closeness.
                  
    Miles liked to eat and drink.  And smoke.  Her body put on weight, her poorly-dyed hair never behaved, and
    she escaped the world by reading.  Her grades sucked.  She didn’t care.

    Laura was a beautiful, social butterfly.   She was pleasant.  Got good grades.  Had the perfect boyfriend.   The
    adoring father.  So why is she the one who killed herself?

    And Miles wonders why Laura got everything.  Everything.  She even got to escape the world.  She got what
    Miles wanted.  Miles planned on joining her.  Who would even care if Miles died, anyway?

    With that frame of mind, Miles takes several downward turns which continue to lead her in the direction her life
    had been heading for a long time.  Laura even left Miles a secret stash of drugs to help her cope.  For a while,
    Miles chooses to live life in a state of numbness.  The worst thing to her was when the fog faded and she had to
    face life without her cousin.  

    As you read YOU KNOW WHERE TO FIND ME, you find touching characters.  You care for them all—not
    just Miles—but her father, Laura’s father, even Laura herself.  Miles falls to such a low that everyone worries
    about her chances of survival.  But somehow in this cocoon of a druggy fog, there’s a spirit of a person.  A
    person who is stronger than many people realized.  People are not always what they seem.  Sometimes they are
    stronger.  Sometimes weaker.

    Rachel Cohn has written a touching novel that covers so many issues.  And it leaves you thinking.  Wondering.   
    Hoping.