Blaming himself for her death, Roman cut himself off from his friends and family. The following weekend Aysel meets Roman at a playground in his town where he divulges his reason for wanting to kill himself: while their parents were away from home, Roman's nine-year-old sister Madison drowned after having a seizure in the bathtub, which he did not hear because he was having sex with a girlfriend. Aysel drives Roman back to his house where she learns that his parents are aware that he is suicidal, and as a result monitor him closely and have taken away his driving privileges at his therapist's recommendation.Īt school, Aysel is paired with her reluctant classmate Tyler Bowen to work on a photography project. She also finds out that he used to play basketball with Brian Jackson, Timothy's younger brother is following in his footsteps as a sports star. They share a meal together Aysel observes that by all appearances Roman is attractive and popular among his peers and she wonders what reason he has to commit suicide. Two days later, Aysel meets up with FrozenRobot (actually a seventeen-year-old boy named Roman) who insists that their joint suicide must take place on April 7. She messages him and they agree to meet up at the root beer stand between their two towns. One day at her job as a telemarketer, she is browsing a website that matches people for suicide pacts when she finds a posting from user FrozenRobot who lives in a nearby town. Īysel fantasizes about killing herself but doubts she has the resolve to follow through. At school she is an outcast since her father's crime is public knowledge and she has a strained relationship with her mother and stepfather, with whom she has lived since his imprisonment. Several years earlier, her father was convicted for the murder of Timothy Jackson, a teenage aspiring Olympian, and she has not seen or contacted him since. It was published by HarperCollins and released on February 17, 2015.Īysel Seran is a Turkish-American sixteen-year-old living in Kentucky.
My Heart and Other Black Holes is a debut young adult novel by American author Jasmine Warga.
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