How Do I Escape When I'm Trapped in My Own Mind?

Kris Jones is just fourteen when her mother suffers a stroke and slips into a coma from which she never fully recovers. A few years later, Kris’s mom dies. The burden then falls on the shoulders of Kris’s older sister to take care of the family, but the effort does not succeed. The family breaks apart, and amid the turmoil Kris must cope with attending a dangerous high school, longing to return to her Catholic school and the safety it provided. When Kris’s grandma dies as well, Kris has no ...