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kba76 's review for:
History Is All You Left Me
by Adam Silvera
This was one of those books that snuck up on me and has left me more than a little stunned...in a great way.
First, let's deal with the fact that Griffin is gay and celebrate that this book doesn't treat it like anything other than part of who he is. Yes, he has relationship difficulties. Sometimes he acts like a jerk. His relationships have touching moments that I felt privileged to be allowed to witness. Sometimes it's painful. Whatever we're witnessing, it's part of him.
Second, the structuring of the story. Splitting between History and Today to show the memories Griffin has and how he's dealing with the aftermath of Theo's accident was, initially, rather confusing but it makes perfect sense as we draw closer to Griffin and see just what he's living with.
There are so many things I liked about this story. It explores a painful event in anyone's life, but learning to live with loss and first love will be relevant in some way to most readers. The closing pages - as we see Griffin finally coming to accept, in part, what he needs to do to forgive himself - were emotionally hard to read.
The final line really intrigued me - who can judge whether you have a shared history wrong? I'll be puzzling this over for some time.
First, let's deal with the fact that Griffin is gay and celebrate that this book doesn't treat it like anything other than part of who he is. Yes, he has relationship difficulties. Sometimes he acts like a jerk. His relationships have touching moments that I felt privileged to be allowed to witness. Sometimes it's painful. Whatever we're witnessing, it's part of him.
Second, the structuring of the story. Splitting between History and Today to show the memories Griffin has and how he's dealing with the aftermath of Theo's accident was, initially, rather confusing but it makes perfect sense as we draw closer to Griffin and see just what he's living with.
There are so many things I liked about this story. It explores a painful event in anyone's life, but learning to live with loss and first love will be relevant in some way to most readers. The closing pages - as we see Griffin finally coming to accept, in part, what he needs to do to forgive himself - were emotionally hard to read.
The final line really intrigued me - who can judge whether you have a shared history wrong? I'll be puzzling this over for some time.