I’m really doing it, I’m catching up on reviews!
Today’s group were some interesting reads and while they cover a wide range of genres, they each deal with some traumatic family moments. So let’s get into these complicated families!
All the Things We Don’t Talk About by Amy Feltman
Genre: Fiction
CWs: attempted school shooting, addiction, alcohol and drug abuse, ableism, transphobia, car crash, internet harassment
Morgan Flowers just wants to hide. Raised by their neurodivergent father, Morgan has grown up haunted by the absence of their mysterious mother Zoe, especially now, as they navigate their gender identity and the turmoil of first love. Their father Julian has raised Morgan with care, but he can’t quite fill the gap left by the dazzling and destructive Zoe, who fled to Europe on Morgan’s first birthday. And when Zoe is dumped by her girlfriend Brigid, she suddenly comes crashing back into Morgan and Julian’s lives, poised to disrupt the fragile peace they have so carefully cultivated.
This was a slow-moving book but by the end I loved it! It wasn’t the perfect read but there was something so gripping about these characters that I couldn’t look away and was so invested in their lives.
It really does get better as you read. I couldn’t figure out what this book was really about at first but it ends up being about all these little things that come back as reminders and themes in such subtle ways. A quiet but stunning read for me. Thanks to Grand Central Publishing for an ARC to review!