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It's probably not a good thing that I was reading this while we suffered a tragic death in our family. My husband read it immediately before me and absolutely raved about it, but I just couldn't get into it. Maybe I'll reread it later. I did find the writing about mental health and how it ravages families to be very beautifully done. I felt the family's anxiety, Michael's pain, and the despair of it all. A good look at family dynamics and how siblings protect each other and their parents, even w
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This was a difficult book. I had some difficulty with the characters, but this probably says more about me than the book and I am not depressed.
this was a 4.5 read for me
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Great writing, but a real snooze.
This was devastating. An absolute wide-eyed look at how mental illness can affect entire families. I think it's a really great book, beautiful and hard and moving, but I kind of wish I hadn't read it.
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