![]() Readers of the e-version can link through and watch them. Links to videos Frank shoots are likewise referenced in the print version of Chopsticks through video stills and YouTube addresses embedded in snippets of instant messaging that the two send each other. ![]() In the app version, they're often animated. The series is set in San Juan Island, off the. Many of Frank's drawings are included in the book's text. Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor is the first book in Lisa Kleypass second contemporary romance series. But presenting them through photographs lends authenticity and emotionality to this story of a girl's descent into madness, which morphs into a romance when a boy named Frank Mendoza moves in next door. They're actors, as the credits at the back of the book make clear. Glory and her family aren't real, of course. Readers enter Glory's house, then flip through the family photo album. To explain Glory's disappearance, the book then flashes back 18 months. At the time of her disappearance, however, she was living in a mental institution obsessively hammering out Chopsticks. ![]() Glory is a world-famous piano prodigy from the Bronx who, we learn from newspaper clippings, was once loved for her fusion of classical music with songs from modern bands such as Pavement and Wilco. It opens with a two-page photo of tree branches, followed by another spread of a fence casting prison-bar shadows, then a collage of TV screen grabs as newscasters report the disappearance of 17-year-old Glory Fleming. Chopsticks is an artful love story cloaked in mystery. ![]()
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