In The Butterfly Clues Young Penelope (OCD)

In the Butterfly Clues young Penelope or “Lo” is a social outcast with OCD (Obsessive Compulsion Disorder). She always had a love for gorgeous items, but her fascination with beautiful things is mostly a coping skill that allows her to deal with all the moving for her workaholic father’s job, her mother that is a pill popping bedroom zombie, and her deceased brother Oren. She steals things on complete impulse. Then she has to place them just perfect to make things right in the world again. They don’t even have to move very much, sometimes it’s just three inches to the right. To her, those three inches is like the weight of the world. Her unusual tick leads her to the outskirts of Cleveland where she finds a new world full of adventure, strippers, exotic people, a young homeless artist, money, drugs and murder. This was quite the roller coaster from the beginning to the end, the author started the book off with a rush into explaining the condition little Lo faces. Her urges are completely uncontrollable since her brother’s death and she ends up struggling to overcome them from the start. I thought it was an amazing concept to think about how complex this character is/was. I wouldn’t have recommended to give that much detail on her disorder in the opening because it …show more content…
A stripper that was murdered, named Sapphire, has become Lo’s full blown obsession. She can’t get her murder out of her head so she attempts to figure it out on her own. On the way, she finds an unlikely ally, a boy that goes by Flynt. Of course, that’s not his real name. Him being homeless and a free traveling artist, he needed to start fresh. He opens her eyes to a fantastic and twisted world of Neverland “the lost city of children”. He is one of the few people who doesn’t think that Lo’s tick makes her odd, in fact, he thinks it makes her more like a