This was my first A.S. King novel, and it won't be my last. Astrid Jones is struggling with a question that everyone is rushing her to answer--Am I gay?--and she has no one to discuss her feelings with. Her mother is pushy, her father distant. She can no longer relate to her sister, and even her best friend seems to be growing apart from her. So while lying in her backyard, Astrid talks to the passengers--the people flying over her small Pennsylvania town--and sends them her love and secrets. 
 Told in a profoundly moving first-person narration, this book packs a punch. It's an issue book, a family drama, a first love, a coming-of-age. I can't do it justice in this mini-review, but it broke my heart and made me hopeful all at once. Astrid Jones, I send you my love! 
 Originally reviewed here.