Living with her aunt after the death of her mother, Faith is something of a loner and desperate to keep people at a distance. The main character, Faith Flores, is a truly terrifying sixteen year old. Having raced through this in the course of one sitting, I have to say I’m surprised to have never heard of the book before now. Can Faith stop this deal gone bad from taking a sharp turn for the worse?ĭeath Spiral is a smart, surprising novel featuring an in-your-face heroine sure to appeal to teens and adults alike. When the medical examiner's body winds up in the Schuylkill River, Faith realizes if she doesn't act fast, she may be the next body in the morgue. A drug-dealer named Rat-Catcher warns Faith to back off, but it doesn't stop Faith from confronting a genetics professor with a guilty conscience. Everyone, that is, except the strangely alluring Jesse, who believes the “real” education's on the street and whose in-your-face honesty threatens to invade Faith's self-imposed “no-dating” rule. Soon she's cutting school and lying to everyone-her aunt, her best friend, even the cops. ![]() When Melinda dies of an overdose, Faith tracks down the scientists behind the trial running at the methadone clinic. ![]() Were her mom and Melinda trying to get clean? But the cops have closed the case and her Aunt T, with whom she now lives in the Philly ‘burbs, wants Faith to let go and move on.īut a note from Melinda, her mom's junkie friend, leads Faith to a seedy downtown methadone clinic. ![]() But when sixteen-year-old Faith Flores-scientist wannabe, loner, new girl in town-finds her mom dead on the bathroom floor, she refuses to believe her mom really OD'd. Life is tough when you have a junkie for a mom.
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