I think Melina Marchetta loves to people-watch and tends to telepathize the mind, heart and soul of any kinds of person. She is brilliant. There are times (many times) I'm not even sure if I'm really seriously facing the reality. Or whether or not I'm just going through its flow. Trapping and clutching it, and then read and understand through it - no, that, I think I can never do. Reality is hard to catch. Let alone interpret and make use of it through words out of imaginations. Reading this book, Melina just did exactly that through writing this amazing piece. I couldn't be grateful enough to read this and her other works. They inspired me, pausing me to the state I'm in, and letting me have an epiphany of what's really going on in life in here and out there. This book took an epiphany out of me, made me understand of what's beyond of where I stand because I felt, really felt for the story. Our life's hang-ups are just hang-ups and there are bigger things out there that we should dig deep into, no matter how mediocre they appeared to be, like our family, friends, partners and everyone else we've come to care for. Looking for Alibrandi is about coming to know an ordinary life's sweetness and flaws and fucked-up pasts and searching through the pursuit of one's truthful desires. Oh my, I think I'm blabbing nonsense already. haha. Just thought I'd share that little epiphany I'm having after reading this. Hmp.. I blame Melina for doing this to me.