Split image Book

As this is the first time I had red a novel in poetry, it took some getting used to. Splitting Image was an interesting story about an extremely popular girl in school, Laura Li. Each page of the novel was from the perspective of a different person in Laura's life all the way from the librarian to Laura herself. Laura is always looked at as the girl who is beautiful and perfect and has everything but that is in fact far from the truth. Laura volunteers at the library where she spends a lot of time and listened the problems of others a whole lot of the time. Along with dealing with people's problems at school, she had countless problems of her own at home. Laura's mother is extremely abusive with her and criticizing everything she does or says. Laura's brother, Jimmy, is also handicap and she spends a lot of her time taking care and doing everything for him throughout the book. Despite her helping so many people, whenever she needed a bit of help, no one would ever listen to her. This caused Laura to get involved with drinking, smoking, drugs, and partying to late hours. It was until her mother forbade her to go to her prom, that Laura had enough and killed herself in the library, setting it to fire to make it seem like an accident. The book was quite morbid and I wasn't particularly expecting it but I wish the book was a bit longer so I could have connected with Laura a bit more. I loved the idea that the book was full of perspectives from different people in Laura's life, it gave a little something to the story. For my first novel in poetry I actually really enjoyed it and would definitely pick up another novel in poetry.