Genre: Young Adult, Magical Realism
What if you had no control over who loved you or for how long - including your parents? How would you grow up, missing such an integral piece of being a human?
Avoir Besoin has always known there was something wrong with her. She's spent her life suffering through blood tests and psychological exams and experiments - all in the name of a cure. But the way things are going, she's not sure she'll survive long enough for them to find a cure. This year Avoir will finally begin to discover that living only for a cure, isn't a life at all. This year, Avoir will have to learn what love really is.
A magical realism story about the different forms love takes in the life of a young girl, trying to figure out who she is and where she belongs.