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A review by minipeat
Everything Beautiful Is Not Ruined by Danielle Younge-Ullman
4.0
"I am feeling like lying on my back and looking up at the sky and letting the stars fall into my eyes and change me, drown me, light me up".
I haven’t ugly cried over a book so much since I read Marley and Me after my childhood dog died.
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Lowering to 4/4.5 in the light of the morning (and nightmares about being chased through the woods by a bear).
My own parents struggled with addiction issues, and my mom mental health issues on top of that. So many of the things Ingrid thought, felt, did, and said reminded me of myself at that age. There's still a part of me that holds on to these things- how unfair it is to be parentified, to feel helpless in the world before you even really grow up, and the despair of seeing someone you care about destroy themselves from the inside out.
This book is marked YA but it is Heavy. Kudos to the author for painting such a great portrait of families in crisis and a really realistic picture of the ups and downs of major depression. Not only is this a great fiction story, but it's a raw and unflinching account of real world trauma. I very rarely read young adult fiction anymore but this was a fantastic choice I don't regret picking up by accident.
I haven’t ugly cried over a book so much since I read Marley and Me after my childhood dog died.
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Lowering to 4/4.5 in the light of the morning (and nightmares about being chased through the woods by a bear).
My own parents struggled with addiction issues, and my mom mental health issues on top of that. So many of the things Ingrid thought, felt, did, and said reminded me of myself at that age. There's still a part of me that holds on to these things- how unfair it is to be parentified, to feel helpless in the world before you even really grow up, and the despair of seeing someone you care about destroy themselves from the inside out.
This book is marked YA but it is Heavy. Kudos to the author for painting such a great portrait of families in crisis and a really realistic picture of the ups and downs of major depression. Not only is this a great fiction story, but it's a raw and unflinching account of real world trauma. I very rarely read young adult fiction anymore but this was a fantastic choice I don't regret picking up by accident.