Dan Sallitt : 2012
Jackie Kimball is a likable, normal 17-year-old girl in every way but one: she has been in love all her life with her brother Matthew, one year older than her. The two siblings have been symbiotically close all their lives, but Matthew doesn't share his sister's incestuous inclinations, and Jackie has no choice but to deal with the intrusion of adult life upon their childhood intimacy. Though Jackie makes little effort to hide her love for Matthew, the family prefers to interpret the attraction as a long-standing childhood phase. Jackie has school friends, but no interest in other boys, and Matthew's unexpected breakup with his new girlfriend Yolanda gives Jackie a temporary reprieve from her grief. Always monitoring Matthew for any sign that he might become receptive to her overtures, Jackie is filled with melancholy as summer wanes and Matthew's departure for college approaches. As Jackie struggles to deal with her deep-rooted heartbreak, leading her to examine just why she's so besotted with and emotionally dependent on her brother, she asks herself what, if anything is actually wrong with this contentious attraction.
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