A review by clare_tan_wenhui
How to Be Safe by Tom McAllister

4.0

I thought about the ways people can be fulfilled and I reminded myself they are not faking it, they are actually happy, people can actually be happy, they are people who go on outside and act on the world and let it act on them and they feel okay about it. I wanted to be one of those people, and I didn't know how I could be that, but that's where I was headed. What I wanted, more than anything, was to be somewhere where I felt safe enough to try again.
Pg 229

A movingly acidic piece of work on the half-myth of "moving on" from tragedy. Despite the caustic tone of the protagonist Anna, thankfully the reader does not ever lose empathy for her. Space and time are always treasured gifts during any tragedy.