I want to meet the characters!

While reading this book, there were multiple times I had to pause, get my husband's attention, and read a sentence or two out loud to him. Lorna Landvik has a gift to capture a feeling or a sense of character perfectly. As a parent of a 14 year old boy, I related to both Susan (publisher, wife, and mother) and Sam, her 15 year old son. Despite being in a coma, Haze Evans is at the heart of this book; we get to know her through her columns, some journal entries, and occasional flashbacks to her younger years. We also get to know a supporting cast of characters who are a part of Haze's life. Their stories and relationships are just as engaging as Haze's past columns. Haze, and I'm assuming Landvik, does have a 'radical' (aka liberal) perspective that was voiced in many of her columns. By the end of the book, I did think this was a distraction from the charm of the growth and relationships of the rest of the characters. With a little less political views, this would have been a five star read for me. The relationships, growth, and self-reflection of the characters were what made the book enjoyable for me.