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Task #3: A book by a woman and/or AOC (Author of Color) that won a literary award in 2018
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A beautiful YA book about grief, how to cope with loss and move on.
I have fallen in love with Nina LaCour. #cantstopwontstop
Her latest is an aching portrayal of grief and betrayal that unfolds slowly but steadily. Marin's isolation is palpable and intriguing and very real.
Hand this one to readers who love their characters to be achingly real, readers who are looking for a heartbreaking story that ultimately offers hope. ...more
Her latest is an aching portrayal of grief and betrayal that unfolds slowly but steadily. Marin's isolation is palpable and intriguing and very real.
Hand this one to readers who love their characters to be achingly real, readers who are looking for a heartbreaking story that ultimately offers hope. ...more
Marin has move to New York and left her life in San Francisco behind. She didn't tell anyone in her old life what upset her. She just up and left, moving to college early. Her former best friend Mabel is clueless as to why Marin has left without a word. Present day is winter break in New York, where Marin is all alone in an empty dorm. Mabel is coming for a visit. With flashbacks to her time in high school, we learn about Marin & Mabel's friendship and Marin's relationship with her grandfather t
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This is a beautiful, sad ...emotional mystery? I guess is what I'd call it? I tore through it very quickly because I wanted to know what happened, but the writing is very deliberate and measured. It's contemplative and sad without exactly being a tearjerker?
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Marin left everything and everyone behind when she left for college two weeks early following a tragedy, and now her BFF has come to visit over their first winter break to find out why. This is a lovely, quiet book about grief following loss and betrayal, and the importance of family. Marin and Mabel's relationship was lovely, and the unfolding through chapters alternating now and last summer felt right.
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LaCour has a beautiful way with words. This is a powerful story.
Just...stunning in its simplicity. Made my heart ache.
A lovely book about love, friendship, loss, lies, lies, family, lies, grief, Jane Eyre, and how being good and honest with each other is just really fucking important. Like really really fucking important. I bawled my eyes out for most of the last 30 pages, and read this in (almost) one sitting, which I rarely do. Would highly recommend.
It was okay. (See what I did there?) Seriously though, this book is fine...I didn't love it, but I didn't hate it, either.
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