Book review: Alex as Well by Alyssa Brugman

by Amanda MacGregor | Blogs
Jan 20, 2015 | Filed in Blogs
“Alex is with me. The other Alex. I am Alex as well. We are the two Alexes. I guess that’s confusing for a lot of people. Sometimes it’s confusing for me too.”   When we first meet Alex we know a few things. Alex has stopped taking some medicine recently. Alex is getting a makeover. [...]

“Alex is with me. The other Alex. I am Alex as well. We are the two Alexes. I guess that’s confusing for a lot of people. Sometimes it’s confusing for me too.”

 

When we first meet Alex we know a few things. Alex has stopped taking some medicine recently. Alex is getting a makeover. Alex’s dad left last night, which Alex says was “100 percent because of me.” And Alex is actually two Alexes.

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