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You're Breaking my Heart
by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich
Thank you to the Levine Querido and Netgalley for providing a digital review copy of this book and the audiobook. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.
A young girl deals with grief and guilt in You’re Breaking My Heart by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich. If you have a sibling, then you can relate to the fighting that often occurs between them. No matter what age, often things are said that are regretted later. In the case of Harriet, she tells her brother she wished he would die, the morning he is shot and killed in a school shooting.
The author weaves together grief, guilt and fantasy as Harriet deals with her current existence in the aftermath of her brother’s murder. We all have moments in our Iives that we wish could have a do-over with. We wish we could say something different or make a different choice.
Harriet feels out of place at her new school, until one day another girl just as “weird” as her shows up at school. She talks about an underground world where there are more people like the two of them. An escape from the bleak life Harriet is living in the aftermath of her brother’s death. It’s a mind-bending, fantastical place beneath the subways of New York City that promises to be an escape that doubles as a second chance.
Her guilt, grief and depression are hard to process in the wake of her brother’s death and her mother’s distance. This underground place might be the second chance or it could be something darker. But Harriet must contend with this decision of whether to stay or go. Whether choosing this dark place is a brighter choice than her grief in her regular life. She takes this journey with her cousin and her brother’s friend.
This is a whirlwind of a speculative novel. It’s an exploration of what it means to have a second chance, as well as how much is a second chance worth.
Also, love the image of a Black girl on the cover swimming.
A young girl deals with grief and guilt in You’re Breaking My Heart by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich. If you have a sibling, then you can relate to the fighting that often occurs between them. No matter what age, often things are said that are regretted later. In the case of Harriet, she tells her brother she wished he would die, the morning he is shot and killed in a school shooting.
The author weaves together grief, guilt and fantasy as Harriet deals with her current existence in the aftermath of her brother’s murder. We all have moments in our Iives that we wish could have a do-over with. We wish we could say something different or make a different choice.
Harriet feels out of place at her new school, until one day another girl just as “weird” as her shows up at school. She talks about an underground world where there are more people like the two of them. An escape from the bleak life Harriet is living in the aftermath of her brother’s death. It’s a mind-bending, fantastical place beneath the subways of New York City that promises to be an escape that doubles as a second chance.
Her guilt, grief and depression are hard to process in the wake of her brother’s death and her mother’s distance. This underground place might be the second chance or it could be something darker. But Harriet must contend with this decision of whether to stay or go. Whether choosing this dark place is a brighter choice than her grief in her regular life. She takes this journey with her cousin and her brother’s friend.
This is a whirlwind of a speculative novel. It’s an exploration of what it means to have a second chance, as well as how much is a second chance worth.
Also, love the image of a Black girl on the cover swimming.