Tag: suicide

YA Review: What I Leave Behind by Alison McGhee

Posted April 25, 2021 by Richetta in Book Reviews, Young Adult

A colleague of mine recommended this to me and I am so glad that I listened to her. There was so much pain and emotion, yet so much power in this short little novel. Sixteen year old Will walks every night as he processes through the grief of losing his father to suicide. You immediately […]

YA Review: The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X.R. Pan

Posted April 25, 2021 by Richetta in #ownvoices, Book Reviews, Young Adult

The start of this book is what caught me. It wasn’t long into it that I realized that despite Leigh, the main character, denying any connection to William Faulkner that she was indeed wrong. Emily X.R. Pan took Faulkner’s technique to the next level. I loved the structure of this story that goes from the […]