However, thats not to say the story is without humor. There are legitimately funny moments, and there are moments with standard comic punchlines that take a tragic turn because they are witnessed so closely together and arent uttered by a precious child.

It's tempting to want a story where characters lay on their beds all day, looking on in ennui as the sun is setting as some grander metaphor for their youth. But instead Vanishing Point presents it with something that's fantastic in a very literal way and that's what makes it stand out as a book for the youth affected by the global recession.