Relativity by Cristin Bisharan (1st Post)

Relativity is one of the first sci-fi/fantasy novels I have read in a while. So far I am only one third thru it but I love it none the less. This book makes me think about the text, pushing me deeper into things I wouldn't have thought of or looked up if not for this book.  "You can't go see mom! This isn't right. You don't belong here, Ruby. You need to go home. Mom is dead. I don't have a brother. If I'm somewhere with a dead persona and a nonexistent person, I don't want to be in that somewhere. I need to get out of this limbo land." (Bishara, 55) From this quote I predicted that Ruby is going to start to miss her mom and she will want to revisit the other world to see her dead mother. Then she will love her undead-otherworldly-mom and want to stay there with her. But yet she has not revisited the other world, I must read on to find out. I am pretty sure she will go back, my question is when and who will she tell about the tree?

Once she started jumping universes something occurred to me, thought it's an extent, it reminded me of Thw Magic Tree House series by Mary Pope Osborn. The brother and sister Jack and Anne traveled to different time periods in a tree house, while Ruby travels to another parallel universe inside of a tree. Both groups of people travel to a place they shouldn't actually be in, have an adventure, then return home inside their tree/treehouse. "Really, only one thing makes sense. Only one course of action feels like the right choice: Head back to the tree, and get the hell out of here." (Bishara, 55) With this quote she is on edge to get back to her universe using the tree, while in The Magic Tree House: The Knight at Dawn- Book 2 ""We can't stay here," said Jack. "We have to go home and make a plan first." He picked up the book about Pennsylvania. He opened it to the page with the red silk bookmark." (Osborn, 13). Both Ruby and Jack want to go home from these other places they visited, with the tree.

In many ways this book reminds me of the real world, though its in the fantasy genre. Ruby is mad that her mother died and his her father is going to marry Willow, and making Willow's daughter, Kandy, her step sister. Many people, I would believe, would be angry at their parent for moving on after the other died. We would all wish for a miracle to happen and our dead relative to return to us, like Ruby does. "That I'm wondering how different my life would be at this very moment if mom had survived that car crash 11 years ago, when I was four. She got hit hard, but her dependable Volvo weathered the impact. She had her seatbelt on. It wasn't an airbag malfunction or anything else that might make sense. No. It was an airborne windshield wiper- propelled with arrow accuracy and speed- that skewered her esophagus. If it hadn't been for that windshield wiper, I wouldn't have a stepmother or a stepsister. I wouldn't have moved to Ohio. I wouldn't be standing in this room right now. Action and reaction." (Bishara, 13) She blames her mom dying for the condition she is in. 

I also feel that dread of a relative dying in a car crash, for my older sister Megan died in such a way, except she was only a baby at the time. Just like the quote i used in the previous paragraph, Ruby is curious of how her life would b if her mother survived the car crash. As I am curious about how my life would be now and was if she as still alive today with me. Would I have moved to Mason? Would I be living in apartment? Would my younger sister Bria ever have existed? Would i be here? Those questions I can't answer, cause I can't change the past, or bring Megan back. 

Shows the back cover of the book for you to read, and see if you become interested as well.

Relativity Back Cover