The tale is all about a lady learning how to live from a child who intends to die. It starts with two people meeting on a ledge of an educational school tower, both considering ending their lives. One away from grief, one other away from pain plus in the midst of death they connect .Both survive that day. Chances are they are hurled together into a project that produces them wander through their provincial Indiana State finding beauty where they never expected to view it. The storyline of these growth in love and life, attempting to get meaning is something that kept me up reading through the night. Their journey through those times that are precarious made me feel more compared to the final ten books I’ve read combined. They made me feel alive. But somehow, as one’s horizons grew, the world that is other’s.
This novel touches on death, depression, and suicide; it paints an image of love in a canvas of pain. Teens for one understand pain and loneliness a lot more than anything: death, grief, love dilemmas, hormones, identity crises, self-esteem dilemmas. You don’t need certainly to be depressed to connect with this novel. You don’t need to have death to understand the pain sensation. Heck you don’t also have to be a young adult. You're just drawn by the flow of it all, you give in. You ride the waves and sometimes the flow can’t be helped by you of tears. I guess one of many plain items that really drew me in is the depiction of characters. They feel genuine, they capture the full lifetime of a person who feels a number of thoughts, the confusion and pretenses to be a teenager. It captures anger. It catches heartache. It captures the hopeful dread inside someone young evaluating the deep abyss associated with future. Forget whatever their dilemmas could be, forget their circumstances, they’re persons and so they feel genuine. Just What occurs for them feels real.
But I do believe what’s important about this novel without giving away an excessive amount of of a spoiler is the fact that it spreads awareness about mental illness and suicide the way that is same Haddon’s The Curious Incident regarding the Dog into the Night Time did with autism. This novel has got the potential to be a mainstream success, and it covers an issue that is important needs more recognition specially with young adults.
Only sometimes you might get enveloped in darkness, which once you learn to manage, you see actually accentuates your light.
~ Elaine
