A review by annwampler
Self-Portrait with Boy by Rachel Lyon

3.0

“It has often occurred to me in the intervening years that if I'd had a digital camera back then, the kind with a screen where you can look at the picture you've just taken - if in the very moment of taking that four hundredth self-portrait I had seen immediately how the picture had turned out - I might have just deleted it. These days, working in digital, I often delete pictures reflexively. But a strip of plastic, gelatin, and silver halide crystals doesn't just disappear. You have to burn it.”

She should have deleted it! This book is hard for me. I really didn't enjoy the main character, Lu. It has an interesting plot, but as characters are more important to me than plot I am giving it three stars. If I had three and half I would.