Chopsticks by Jessica Anthony & Rodrigo Corral

One part journal, one part scrapbook, Chopsticks tells the story of Gloria as she simultaneously falls in love and falls apart and I LOVED IT!!!  First of all, visually it is beautiful, each page is a piece of art.  Second, the story - oh, my - it was at times sweet and lovely and at times sad and heartbreaking.  This book does not take you long to read - one hour tops - *but* it is the kind of book you can look through again and again...just wonderful  .

From Amazon:

Glory is a piano prodigy. 

After her mother died, she retreated into her music. Her father raised her with the goal of playing sold out shows at Carnegie Hall and across the globe. Brilliant and lonely, Glory is drawn to Frank, who moves in next door. She loses herself in his paintings and drawings, mix CD’s and late-night IM conversations. Soon, Frank becomes both her connection to the world--and her escape from reality.

Before long, Glory is unable to play anything but the song “Chopsticks”; F and G notes moving closer together, and farther apart.

Now, Glory has disappeared. But nothing is what it seems. And we must decide what is real, what is imagined, and what has been madness all along.