So far this book is different from London's "Call of the Wild" where everything is pure fantasy and not necessarily the truth. In "Just Listen" though, things come off differently. You get the feeling as you're reading, that you're reading something akin to a diary or something- that it's the truth and nothing but the truth, or else the truth from how the author views it. Thing is, I don't think the author of this book is Dessen, at least I don't think she wrote it from her point of view so to speak (meaning it's her voice writing or its her diary that I'm reading). Dessen writes this book as if she's the actual main character of the book, Annabel. So far this is what's happened... Annabel has two sisters- both older but completely opposite of each other and she's still in high school, so she still lives her with parents. Supposedly her family is perfect- but then again, not everything is what it seems and that's what Annabel tells the reader, indirectly of course. At first she tells of how her mom acted when her mom found out her mother died- and how although Annabel didn't know it at the time (she was too young to realize what was going on), her mother was depressed and acted so. At times, Annabel's mother wouldn't even get out of the bed and would stay in bed all day, hardly eating anything. She tells of how the whole family tried to act as if everything was ok, fine, perfect and move to take over the things that Annabel's mother left undone. Next Annabel tells of her sister- Whitney of her relationship with their other sister, Kirsten. Mostly they have a rocky relationship because they're complete opposites- Whitney is calm and quiet while Kirsten is loud, talkative and bubbly. When Whitney follows Kirsten to New York to try their luck with modeling (which they've been doing since they were young), things go from bad to worse. For awhile though, the rest of the family don't realize that something is wrong with Whitney, and that she has an eating disorder. Unfortunately though, they won't realize something is terribly wrong with Whitney until Annabel finds her collapsed on the floor of the bathroom early one morning, which then ends up with Whitney in the hospital and everyone acting as they did when Annabel's mother was "sick" that everything is fine- perfectly normal and nothing is wrong.
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