Title: How to Make Friends with the Dark
Author: Kathleen Glasgow
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Publication Date: April 9, 2019
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Summary
It’s always been just Tiger and her mom, both of them against the world. When Tiger’s mom dies suddenly, she’s not sure what she’s supposed to do. How do you learn how to live without the person who is most important to you in life?
Without her moth, Tiger is bounced around the system, trying to find a home and trying to figure out life without her mother. After all, the last conversation she had with her mother, she told her to leave her alone. So, does that mean it was Tiger’s fault that her mother died? How does someone live with that.
Without her mother, Tiger has to learn how to make friends with the dark.
Review: How to Make Friends withe the Dark
We received an ARC of this book at work, and first of all, let’s just admire this cover. It’s absolutely beautiful. So far, I’ve thought that of both of Kathleen Glasgow’s books. This is one of the first books I’m checking off my Spring TBR. Yay! Dark and emotional, just what we’ve started to associate with a Kathleen Glasgow book.
Throughout the book, we feel Tiger’s raw emotion at losing her mother, so unexpectedly. You can tell that Glasgow did her research about the foster system and how teens can be bounced around from place to place after losing a parent. As reader’s, we feel Tiger’s pain at losing her mother. We feel her pain at feeling like she’s alone in the world. Everything about her story feels real.
The book is also constructed well. Generally, I never really felt like the story or its characters were lacking in any sense. The plot doesn’t function as you might predict, which makes the book feel all the more realistic.
Overall, dark, emotional, and entirely realistic.
5/5 stars