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A review by sunflower_martha
The First Day of Spring by Nancy Tucker
4.0
Let me write a review while stuck on the tram.
I got this book out of a video-recommendation on tiktok and then I let it sit on my shelf for five months just to start it right on the first day of spring.
Naturally, having to wait, some expectations built up and I have to say I was absolutely positively surprised by this book.
It's powerful in its description of a childhood gone wrong and its echo through your whole life. At times I forgot I was reading fiction and thought of it as a real true crime story.
It's heartbreaking in many little ways, exactly like real life.
It's a perfect portrait of the many many ways adults fail children and then blame them for the wreckage.
I absolutely recommend it.
I got this book out of a video-recommendation on tiktok and then I let it sit on my shelf for five months just to start it right on the first day of spring.
Naturally, having to wait, some expectations built up and I have to say I was absolutely positively surprised by this book.
It's powerful in its description of a childhood gone wrong and its echo through your whole life. At times I forgot I was reading fiction and thought of it as a real true crime story.
It's heartbreaking in many little ways, exactly like real life.
It's a perfect portrait of the many many ways adults fail children and then blame them for the wreckage.
I absolutely recommend it.