McNamara, Amy - A Flicker in the Clarity

Gently Used
Hardcover
 
Evie and Emma are two halves of a whole.  Emma's the one people see, a turbulent star flashing bright, always there to shake things up.  Evie's the steady to Emma's wild, the eye of all her storms, ready to pull Emma back from any edge.  But at a party full of strangers, Emma goes off the rails.  And now she's icing Evie out.  Emma instantly replaces Evie with a new best friend, and Evie finds herself hiding and trying to dodge them at school.  At home, Evie's mom has been making failed attempts to connect with her since her dad died.  There's no place Evie can find to breathe.  Adrift without Em, Evie takes a hard look at herself.  Who is she without her friend?  Then she meets Theo Gray, a homeschooled prodigy who boxes.  Theo asks Evie some hard questions that challenge everything she thought she knew about friendship, love, and letting go.  Then Emma reappears in Evie's life, more erratic than ever.  Stealing, drunken mishaps, and late-night alarm calls are some of the hoops Emma makes Evie jump through on Emma's road toward self-destruction.  Treading dark water of guilt, frustration, and a longing for how things were, Evie must decide if saving her best friend is worth losing herself in the process.