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A review by melthemighty
The Parable of the Mustard Seed by Lisa Henry
5.0
Wow ...
I'm wearing a scarf in the apartment because it's cold as shit and this one got a little uncomfortable because it was completely soaked with tears.
To say I cried a lot reading this incredible story would be an understatement.
Please by all means pay attention to the triggers (child abuse, self-harm, suicide attempts and various others), but if you're comfortable with that and looking for something emotionally devastating, this book is perfect.
I'm a bit wiped out at the moment and I'm at a loss for words, so here are a few wonderful highlights to show how wonderful this book is.
Stupid dumb hope, because Caleb wasn’t going to get better. He had no baseline of good mental health to try to reclaim. Caleb had been broken for too long, into too many pieces, and there wasn’t a doctor or a medication in the world that could plaster over all the cracks and pretend they didn’t go bone deep.
I'm wearing a scarf in the apartment because it's cold as shit and this one got a little uncomfortable because it was completely soaked with tears.
To say I cried a lot reading this incredible story would be an understatement.
Please by all means pay attention to the triggers (child abuse, self-harm, suicide attempts and various others), but if you're comfortable with that and looking for something emotionally devastating, this book is perfect.
I'm a bit wiped out at the moment and I'm at a loss for words, so here are a few wonderful highlights to show how wonderful this book is.
Stupid dumb hope, because Caleb wasn’t going to get better. He had no baseline of good mental health to try to reclaim. Caleb had been broken for too long, into too many pieces, and there wasn’t a doctor or a medication in the world that could plaster over all the cracks and pretend they didn’t go bone deep.