A review by castleh15
Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler

5.0

As a first year teacher, it was so exciting to find this book in the box of books that was delivered to my classroom one Wednesday. I had been wanting to read it after finding it on a shelf in Barnes and Noble, but two things were holding me back--it was sort of expensive, and I was hesitant about what it's pages would hold; I didn't want to relive a breakup I myself had. But you're supposed to make connections to a text when you read it, right? Right.

So, I brought the book home that night and started it. By the next day, I was a little over a hundred pages in and HOOKED. Min reminds me a lot of myself from high school: sentimental, thoughtful, and a little weird. A good weird, but still weird. My heart ached for Al when I got to page 318, and I felt from the beginning that what would eventually happen might happen based on my own experience. This book is beautifully, spastically written, and filled with such emotion. I cried a couple times, if I'm being honest. By late Friday night, I had finished it. It was so. good.


I say there needs to be a sequel--written in Ed's point of view when he picks up the box. I want to know that jerks thoughts are and be able to pick apart his thought process as he goes through the box that Min so kindly left on his porch.