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A review by gottarun31
Everything Here Is Beautiful by Mira T. Lee
5.0
Everything Here is Beautiful is heartbreaking. A story of a beautiful soul, Lucia, who suffers from schizophrenia or bipolar disease or something on the spectrum that makes her life difficult in unfathomable and scary ways. Her story is told from various perspectives- her sister Jie, her boyfriend Manny, her husband Yonah, and Lucia herself- all of their lives so deeply intertwined with Lucia, her illness, and their love (in whatever form) of her.
There was a line in the book during one of Lucia's sections that talks about when she was first diagnosed. At the age of 27, they gave her a 20% chance of holding a steady job and like a 40% chance of living until an old age (I'm butchering the stats since I dropped the book off at the library). Those stats are terrifying and to see Lucia when she's good, but have those numbers in the background, my heart broke for her. Completely foreshadows the struggles and the ending.
There was a line in the book during one of Lucia's sections that talks about when she was first diagnosed. At the age of 27, they gave her a 20% chance of holding a steady job and like a 40% chance of living until an old age (I'm butchering the stats since I dropped the book off at the library). Those stats are terrifying and to see Lucia when she's good, but have those numbers in the background, my heart broke for her. Completely foreshadows the struggles and the ending.