Amy & Roger's Epic Detour

by Morgan Matson

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After the death of her father, Amy, a high school student, and Roger, a college freshman, set out on a carefully planned road trip from California to Connecticut, but wind up taking many detours, forcing Amy to face her worst fears and come to terms with her grief and guilt.

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Amy and Rogers Epic detour I really loved his book. This book follows the character of Amy and Roger and they need to drive across country but they have never really met. This trip becomes long and drawn out but it becomes the adventure of a lifetime and they both really learn to face their fears and also learn to face themselves. This book was very focused on self-discovery for the character of Amy but also about forgiveness and I really loved that.

This book also had scrapbook element that followed the trip that they took and i really loved that idea and loved seeing reminders of their trip in visual form to me it made the trip feel more real.

This book also dealt with death of parent and also addiction with a sibling and I liked how the book dealt with these topics and saw the effect it had on everybody lives not just the person addicted.

This book did not end in neat bow and I still have questions but I really loved this book.
This is a perfect summer read and I loved it so much.

Check out my morgan matson non-spoiler review video.
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lmauro123 | Dec 28, 2023 |

Awh no, did it seriously end like this? I need more, I want to know more. Why would you end a book like this ;;
This book took me a while to read, but mostly because I haven't been in reading mood lately, but this was such a fun light read. Makes me want to go on a road trip with someone and have an amazing time. (

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Yosemite National Park, California, USA

Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA

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I sat on the front steps of my house and watched the beige Subaru station wagon swing too quickly around the cul-de-sac.

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I liked that the meteorologists could tell people across the country what their days and weeks would bring. They were preparing people, letting them know that a storm might be coming toward them. And that way, you weren’t caught totally off guard and unprepared when it finally hit you.

I’d found out that if you pushed people away hard enough, they tended to go.

People had always seemed surprised to hear I was an actor. But I’d loved the chance to become someone else for a few hours. Someone for whom the words had been written, every gesture and emotion plotte, and the ending figured out. Almost like life. Just whiteout surprises.

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After the death of her father, Amy, a high school student, and Roger, a college freshman, set out on a carefully planned road trip from California to Connecticut, but wind up taking many detours, forcing Amy to face her worst fears and come to terms with her grief and guilt.

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Amy Curry thinks her life sucks. Her mom decides to move from California to Connecticut to start anew--just in time for Amy's senior year. Her dad recently died in a car accident. So Amy embarks on a road trip to escape from it all, driving cross-country from the home she's always known toward her new life. Joining Amy on the road trip is Roger, the son of Amy's mother's old friend. Amy hasn't seen him in years, and she is less than thrilled to be driving across the country with a guy she barely knows. So she's surprised to find that she is developing a crush on him. At the same time, she's coming to terms with her father's death and how to put her own life back together after the accident. Told in traditional narrative as well as scraps from the road--diner napkins, motel receipts, postcards--this is the story of one girl's journey to find herself.

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