Things start to get strange when Evie finally gets a letter or two back from Cilla, telling her to stop writing and forget her, but Evie doesn’t stop writing – she continues, this time insisting that she is going to find her sister and convince her to come home. When Evie finds herself questioning her own sexuality and even her belief in God, she misses her sister even more. What if we want to do this or that? ISn’t it more important to be happy than to follow some thousand-year-old law about not eating meat? Or not wanting the cute new boots Miri showed up wearing yesterday?Īlthough Evie and Cilla don’t actually speak throughout the novel, with the exception of flashbacks, Evie still tells her sister about everything – the feelings that she has toward the new girl in school, her parents, and even the religion that she has grown up into. While it hurts Evie that her sister hasn’t been writing back, she continues writing to her, telling Cilla about everything that is going on in her life. So when Cilla is sent away, Evie decides that she will start writing to Cilla, even though Cilla doesn’t really write her back at all. Of course, this broke Evie’s heart, because Evie really loved her sister and looked up to her.

Since her parents are strict Catholics, they would not accept her pregnancy or allow her any peace, so she was sent away until after she had the baby. I Miss You focused on family, with a strong emphasis on a relationship between two sisters and their parents, and a single problem in the family that caused it to fall apart.Įvie misses her older sister, Cilla, who was sent to live with a great-aunt after she had become pregnant.

They are full of flawed characters, of mistakes, of sibling relationships, and realistic relationships that involve divorce, step-parents and siblings, and different situations that are easy for all readers to relate to. It was a tearjerker, it was inspirational, and it was so beautifully written and emotionally gripping that I couldn’t put it down and read the entire book in a single sitting.īooks that revolve around family are my favorite books – especially when they feel real.

I Miss You was probably one of the most heartwrenching books that I have read not only so far in 2018, but all time.

P.S. I Miss You by Jen Petro-Roy