Review: We Come Apart

I don’t often read YA, and it’s even less that I am moved by a YA novel, so when I finished We Come Apart by Sarah Crossan and Brian Conaghan, I was taken aback.

I will say that this book is fantastic. Written in free form verse, we follow Nicu, a Romanian immigrant, transplanted in London and Jess, who is struggling in a dangerous and troubling home situation. Both of these teens eventually come into contact with one another and friendship emerges that bridges them despite a difference in cu...