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Ballads of Suburbia by Stephanie Kuehnert
4.0
This took me right back to high school. Okay, the kids in the story and their drugs and parties are tangential at most to the kids I hung out with, but I recognized them all. They were the angry, self-destructive kids a part of me wished I could be when the quiet of suburbia clashed with the big and confusing emotions of that age. They're kids I knew but didn't understand at the time. They're listening to a lot of the same music.
And I absolutely recognized the characters' determination not to screw up or become complacent like their parents did (without having any idea what that will look like as they get older), and the way small dramas turned into the biggest thing. This is a book about divorce and addiction and self-harm but to me it was much more universal than a Book About Issues.
And I absolutely recognized the characters' determination not to screw up or become complacent like their parents did (without having any idea what that will look like as they get older), and the way small dramas turned into the biggest thing. This is a book about divorce and addiction and self-harm but to me it was much more universal than a Book About Issues.