Synopsis
Eighteen year-old Meg has been adrift ever since her father left their family, driving away in a blue car. Now, in her final year of high school, she has finally found a life-line. Her poetry teacher, Mr. Auster, a man who exposes her raw talent and drives her to succeed, introduces her to the wonders of her imagination and seems to genuinely care about her in a way that no one else in her life does. At home, Meg must balance her defiant anger at her over-worked, inattentive mother with her valiant struggle to help her troubled younger sister. But at school, with Mr. Auster, she enters another world where her deepest feelings come to the surface, where she is safe to tell the truth, where she has a future – which seems even more exciting when she wins a school poetry contest and the opportunity to compete in the national finals across the country in Florida. But as Meg prepares for the contest, things begin to disintegrate at home, the bottom falls out of her world and Meg has only one place to turn: Mr. Auster.
Karen Moncrieff