How I Live Now
(meg rosoff)
In the days leading up to and the days following war, we are given a chance to find ourselves. It is within the war itself that we build and purge until the war is over. "How I Live Now" is like an autumn day on a blanket layed out on a large lawn, the clouds drifting in the sky and time seemingly to cease altogether. In the background lurks the real world forcing some tragic transformations and sparing others until the war settles into the distance and all is but equal and calm as it was. Told through the eyes of an early teenager in a foreign world who was dropped off with blood-line strangers, Daisy narrates a story about her new friends and this strange new life, pace striking steadily through young love, the absence of her entire family and beloved mother, and death and despair as it surrounds her. Her New York City upbringing may have given her an advantage over the cousins who knew much about farm animals and taking care of themselves, but little about life outside of their prairie. What they had in common was comraderie -- they were dedicated to each other like one soldier to the next. Their days as children never disappeared, not in their minds, not in our thoughts while reading, and not in the aftermath when we hear Daisy's words, "This is how I live now."
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