A review by melissayabookshelf
When You Were Here by Daisy Whitney

4.0

Beautifully-written novel about loss from a male POV, which incorporates travel to Tokyo and a brief trip to Kyoto, Japan. There are some twists and turns along the way that make it even more heart-breaking, but this wasn't a book that made me cry. In a way, I'd say it's more about celebrating life and the memories that one has of the deceased than a book solely about grief, though of course, there is the expected anger, numbness, sadness, etc. that one would associate with a teen boy who has just lost his mom.