Alexandra tries to guess what's real and what isn't. She is starting in a new high school and doesn't want people to know she is schizophrenic. She just wants a quiet life and to get into university. Except she met a boy that may be the one that helped her save some lobsters. Even she thought he wasn't real. 
 So Alexandra is an unreliable narrator but the kind that says her truth, that lies to herself without intending to. 
 That's an interesting story. Where her mother seems an enemy. Where the boy is a weird one. Where it can be hard to know what's real or not. Well some are easy. But others seem to belong. The book seems at first a light reading despite Alex's problems.