![]() Please tell me someone else is as frustrated by this as I am. And the mother is always the wonderful saint who is a victim of the father's actions, of course. I wonder if a lot of authors must suffer from daddy issues on pare with Sylvia Plath's. If they aren't assholes then they're dead it's like the reverse of the Disney tendency to kill off mothers. Just an aside, why do divorced couples in YA novels always have to do with one partner ( usually always the father) cheating? And why is the father always the one demonized? I feel bad for YA fathers. The family dynamics were typical- cheating dad the scumbag who left the family for a woman half his age, mom the wonderful human being he left behind, and then a fairly typical (for YA novels, at least) sibling relationship with the brother and sister. ![]() Which was why I was so disappointed that this book seemed like every other YA grief book I ever read. But one of the reasons why I even thought this book would be better than All the Bright Places was because I noticed the author had a deep connection to suicide- the death of her brother, to be exact. ![]()
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