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"No and Me" is a story about Lou,a super intelligent girl with an IQ of 160. She is very quiet, unpopular and scared of "socializing" .She sees things in a different ways than others. Her mother became distant and blank ever since her younger sister died 4 years ago. Since then, the happiness left her family forever. She has a weird hobby of watching people's expressions at the train station. There, she met No, a teenager who is homeless and hopelessly wandering on the streets of France, where there are more and more homeless people, especially young women. At first, their conversations started with casual questions. Then, No accepted to help Lou with her presentation about homeless young women. By then, they got to know more about each other. Finally, Lou decided to bring No home with her, and she got an unexpecting support from her parents. Somehow, No's presence had changed the family. Her mother opened up and began to "live" again. Her family was suddenly together again. Lou, No and Lucas, a boy that Lou really likes but rarely talks to, became closed friends. At the same time, No got jobs, and she was saving so that one day she would have enough money to live with her boyfriend, Laurent. Everything seemed to be in its perfect order. But life is not that easy, one by one events happened, and No ended up on the street again. Only this time, Lou was with her. They intended to go to Ireland and lived there with No's boyfriend. I like this book because of the interesting way the main character thinks. One by one, new perceptions about life were revealed through Lou's thinking. However, the characters seemed to get lost in her own thought too much that it is confused to read. But in a whole, this is a delighted book to read, especially because of its topic about homeless people.

Entertaining, but I think I expected way too much from this book before I read it.

I steered clear of the book and film for years, wary of the subject matter. However once I started reading it I wanted to be lost in this world. I felt I could see, feel, smell and taste the particulars of this suburbia. I later consumed the film and soundtrack / score (by french electronic band Air) and loved all of it.