Friday, March 08, 2013  Ask the Passengers by A.S. King  Ask The
PassengersAsk The Passengers by A.S. King  My rating: 5 of 5
stars  When I was young, my parents divorced and my father
married a flight attendant. My mother remarried shortly
thereafter, and my stepfather took a job in Nebraska. My father
lived in California and I didn't get to see him very much, or
even really talk to him much, so I took to watching airplanes.
Every time I saw an airplane flying overhead, I specifically
thought about my father so that even though I didn't see him or
talk to him, I would still be close to him, somehow.  Astrid
feels like she doesn't fit in. Her mother Claire (a successful
art director) moved Astrid and her sister Ellis, along with
their pot-smoking mostly non-working father from New York to the
suburbs, to live in the house Claire's grandmother lived in.
Astrid's best friend is hiding a secret and Astrid may be as
well, but she's just not sure.  There's a lot of small-town
gossip, peer-pressure and confusion in