The Girl in the Box

Did nobody else on GR see the clues that maybe the girl was making this up, locked inside her room, or maybe inside her own mind, maybe catatonic. Maybe sorta like [b:Me & Emma|80534|Me & Emma|Elizabeth Flock|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1388360733l/80534._SY75_.jpg|600345].

Whatever really happened, and whatever really happens after the last page, doesn't matter. The story is about the friendships, and about this girl with the amazing ability to tell stories, and the ambiguity of it all. And it's brilliant.

The girl in a box... I still can't remember why I picked it up at a school book fair, but I can remember the emotions that flowed off the page. This book does leave you in an emotional wreck at the fate of the girl. Does she die? did she live? It's a question that's never answered, but reading this girl's story gripped me from the very first line.

A brilliant read and a book that stays with you long after you've finished.

The girl in a box... I still can't remember why I picked it up at a school book fair, but I can remember the emotions that flowed off the page. This book does leave you in an emotional wreck at the fate of the girl. Does she die? did she live? It's a question that's never answered, but reading this girl's story gripped me from the very first line.

A brilliant read and a book that stays with you long after you've finished.

A girl types in the dark of a cement prison, where she’s been left with food & water, her typewriter & paper. I’ve been curious about this one because I lived in Memphis when a girl there was kidnapped & later rescued from the ceiling space of a church. This story is an examination of a mind, rather than mystery or adventure. Some typos would have made it more realistic.

Kidnapped and left in an underground room, Jackie explores her psychological strengths and limitations as she tries to make contact with the outside world by writing messages and sending them through a slit in the door.