Books like I Kill Giants

This really grew on me. It had to. I started the book frustrated with Barbara, with her disconnect from the real world and total immersion in a fantasy world she's created, with her near inability to interact with the people around her. That's a bold thing that Kelly did, to start the reader off with an entirely outside perspective of Barbara, and only slowly reveal exactly what is going on inside her heart and mind, and what events in her life have caused her to react in this way. (view spoiler)[Her mother is dying of cancer, and Barbara refuses to accept that. Her giant killing fantasy is the way she's tried to construct an actual, material thing she can do to save her. (hide spoiler)]