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Everything Beautiful Is Not Ruined
by Danielle Younge-Ullman
Holy moly-- this book!
Ingrid Burke really wants to accept an invitation to study at one of the world's most premiere music schools in London during her senior year, but her mother sets a condition: Ingrid must first attend a three week summer wilderness camp in northern Canada. To Ingrid's horror, her fellow campers are considered "at-risk" and include a criminal and a teenage mom, and worse, this is no relaxing, civilized camp experience. Instead, Ingrid and company must chart their own course, build lean-tos, save their excrement in Ziploc bags and share their feelings at nightly circle meetings. Ingrid writes to her mother nightly in her journal with all of her often angry thoughts on her experience. Readers learn, over time, that Ingrid has a sad story to tell that includes the love/hate relationship she has with her mother and her feelings for a boy who complicated everything with his penis.
Younge-Ullman's story is full of raw emotion, and she creates a completely believable story about what it's like to live with and love someone who is mentally ill. If I share more, I'll totally ruin the book for you. But please put this on your "must read" list. It's a marvel.
Ingrid Burke really wants to accept an invitation to study at one of the world's most premiere music schools in London during her senior year, but her mother sets a condition: Ingrid must first attend a three week summer wilderness camp in northern Canada. To Ingrid's horror, her fellow campers are considered "at-risk" and include a criminal and a teenage mom, and worse, this is no relaxing, civilized camp experience. Instead, Ingrid and company must chart their own course, build lean-tos, save their excrement in Ziploc bags and share their feelings at nightly circle meetings. Ingrid writes to her mother nightly in her journal with all of her often angry thoughts on her experience. Readers learn, over time, that Ingrid has a sad story to tell that includes the love/hate relationship she has with her mother and her feelings for a boy who complicated everything with his penis.
Younge-Ullman's story is full of raw emotion, and she creates a completely believable story about what it's like to live with and love someone who is mentally ill. If I share more, I'll totally ruin the book for you. But please put this on your "must read" list. It's a marvel.