Montana's life turns out better than you'd think. In the end, she got her dream boy and it seems that that is all she really needed considering the way everything else turned out. Montana ended up marrying Bernardo, her high school sweetheart which is everything she hoped for. He was the only thing keeping her sane. Montana ended up staying in the city with her horrible family, although I am not sure why. Personally I do not like the way the book ended because it left a lot of unanswered questions that were confusing. If Montana moved away from her family and the city with Bernardo after high school than her life could have turned out much better. She says at the end of the book "New York City can't possibly continue on without us." Clearly she was too used to the city to actually leave. Maybe she was more of a city girl than I anticipated in the middle of the book. She says "We are the ones keeping it alive, I think. With our cigarettes and dyed hair and cursing and snoop sitting and coffee inhaling, aren't we the very essence of the city? The city and the impact of others changed her very much throughout the book into someone I consider, she isn't. She turned into a whole new person after everything she went through.
On the last page of the book, Montana makes a list of things to be grateful for: Bernardo Edition, which states "1. The way the city looks when you are holding hands with someone versus the way it looks when you are not. That it is beautiful either way. That it changes but it doesn't change. 2. How much can shift when you go from dirty blond to dirty pink.(when she died her hair pink, this is when Bernardo decided to first talk to her, to say her hair looked different but nice) The space between pretty and being loved, and not having to know which you actually are. 3. The things that didn't happen. The words I didn't say The promises I didn't keep. The undone. The things I didn't hold on to. The things I'll never know. The person I didn't become for you." Montana fell so hard in love with Bernardo that just one summer changed her whole life.
After reading your whole book, how do you feel about it? Did it turn out how you predicted, or was it something unexpected? Did you generally like it, or was it not very interesting for you?
I liked my book overall, but I think there are many things that could have been changed that would have made the book a lot more interesting. I would not recommend this book to someone else though because it did drag on a bit/got boring. The ending was not good either, so overall it does not make it a good enough book to recommend. It did not get very good reviews, but I am glad I read it.
I personally have not read this book but when you quote,"New York City can't possibly continue on without us," I imagine her being more sarcastic. On the occasion that she was serious, it is obvious that she was in denial about something. In my book,"Cant get there from here", there is also that deep seeded idea that they hate a place so much, then end up realizing it's not so bad.
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