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Me & Emma by Elizabeth Flock
4.0

So I picked this book up while I was on vacation for a night's read back at the hotel because it looked bittersweet and well written. It is both those things, but it's also depressing as anything: the ending hit me out of nowhere even though I have some understanding of the psychological damage caused by child abuse, and I felt a bit manipulated by the writer's deliberate presentation of a point of view where all the characters back up the narrator's perspective to create reality where there's only defensive fantasy. Worth reading, but don't expect to come out of it happy.