"The Ice Queen" By Alice Hoffman

I've begun yet another book. lol.

"The Ice Queen" By Alice Hoffman. Welcome to a world of interesting wishes gone wrong. An 8 year old girl wishes her mother won't come home, because her mother is spending the night out on her birthday. Her mother dies on the way to the party -- ice slick on the drive there. Here is an 8 year old who blames herself, her actions, and her words. A girl who, upon learning of her mother's death, leaves behind all her toys because she doesn't believe that she deserves them.
She stops being able to make any sort of connection with people. She becomes a librarian obsessed with death. She helps a local cop solve homicide cases, and has sex with him in the back seat of his car. Not because she wants him, but because she just wants sex. When he starts to love her, she hightails it away and runs from him.
She's now on her way down south to live with her brainiac brother who is very well educated and studies meteorology. He has taken her from her stupor in their grandmother's old house and re-located her down south with him. On their way down south, they encounter a thunderstorm. Her brother is happily writing down details of the thunderstorm and she says aloud that she wishes she'd get struck by lightning. There it was, another ill-fated wish, said too quickly to take back.
A few months later, she is struck by lightning, and her whole world changes.
She loses the ability to see the color red.

that is it so far, she's now getting on with her disabilities...and she's joined her brother's studies on people who have been struck by lightning.

~M