-Sophia Bracho*
Breathe My Name Breathe My Name by R.A. Nelson Tells the story of Frances, a girl who hasn’t been able to change her past. She lives with her loving adoptive family who treats her like she is still a child, and wants to protect her from the thoughts that have been in her mind lately. She has the best family, best friend, and the best boyfriend. But the thoughts of what she went through 11 years before haven’t been able to escape her mind. Eleven years ago Frances was known as Shine. She had three younger sisters and lived out in the country with her mother. It is clear from the flashbacks in the story that her birth mother had mental problems and is putting the four girls in harms way. Frances’ birth mother has been residing in a mental hospital since the courts sentenced her there after finding her guilty by reason of insanity for the deaths of her three daughters. Afton Jelks smothered her daughters one by one on a spring day when Frances was seven-years-old. The only reason Frances survived is because a man reading an electric meter heard the struggle and busted in the house and allowed Frances to escape. The memories are coming to the surface now that a lawyer contacts Frances to tell her that her mother has been released to a halfway house and would like to see her. Frances has mixed feelings but eventually, against the wishes of her parents, decides to make the journey to see her mother. With the help of her best friend and under the appearance of attending a weekend school trip, she and Nix hit the open road. They follow one clue to the next to find the exact location of where her birth mother is. Frances’ trip to find her crazy birth mother turns out to be a trap. Your heart will break as you watch Frances come to terms with the day her world changed forever.
-Sophia Bracho*
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