The synopsis:

Lost and alone...Down the rabbit hole.
Alice thought she knew
what solitude was:
Her mother—gone.
Her father—remarried with a newborn
daughter.
Now...
Trapped
in the icy embrace
of a deadly snowstorm,
Alice faces the true meaning of loneliness.
But hope
may not be as far away
as she thinks....
Alice is bitter over her mother's death from cancer years ago and her father's ongoing emotional distance. A stepmother and newborn half sister render Alice both scornful and jealous. Soon she's estranged from church and also from her best friend, who finds Ali's song lyrics too gloomy. Readers may simultaneously sympathize with Alice's ceaseless grief and wish she could do more than whimper about it, but nothing shifts until the family (minus dad) is stranded in the snow. Four days in a snowbound car, first with her stepmother and then alone with tiny baby Ivy, slowly reopen Ali's heart.

My thoughts:
This is only the second book of Schroeder's I've read, but I am hooked. Her unique line breaks and simplistic words really wrap the story up in a way that tugs at my heartstrings and made it impossible to put the book down. Ali's heartbreak and pain from all of the loss in her life is palpable and beautifully told.