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emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Reading this book made me reflect back on my past and current friendships. As well as future friendships, now that I’m transferring to UC Davis (sorry Cal). It made me appreciate all the people that I chose to stay friends with and reminds me to work as much as possible to maintain those friendships. I want my friendships to fizzle out or end because of uncontrollable factors or due to incompatibility, but never because of simply not doing the effort to work on the friendship.
*Started this book before UCB Transfer admission decisions came out, then a few days later, got accepted. Universe things.*
*Started this book before UCB Transfer admission decisions came out, then a few days later, got accepted. Universe things.*
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder
A thoughtful and moving memoir of friendship, grief, and growing up. Really captures the feel of a very specific moment in a very specific place.
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A crisp and beautifully written, relatable bio. A regular person's account of a deep friendship, losing it suddenly, and processing trauma in his own way. It felt aimless, then suddenly in focus. Almost the way growing up would, as we grow with the character. Something about it connected, perhaps because we can imagine those moments where an acquaintance becomes a best friend almost without knowing when or why.
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informative
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challenging
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A difficult read for many reasons. A truly sad story that Hsu describes in moving fashion. He captures the self-interested nature of adolescents well and the opening of the book captures the unlikely friendships of youth that are ultimately some of the best. However the pacing is off and I did not find the quality of the narrative or the writing consistent throughout.
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