I had no idea what to expect from this book as I didn’t read the blurb. It’s a Lucinda Berry book so it has to be good, right? This is a deeply intense, kinda dark one.
This is the story of Noah, a smart kid, a good kid from the outside looking in. He did something that he felt guilty about and withdrew into himself until he couldn’t take it anymore and confessed to his mom. That started a sequence of events that seemed to take off like a freight train. He ended up in a juvenile psychiatric institution to get him the help he needed. There is also the fact that his family became so disjointed his mom moved out of the family home to an apartment where Noah could stay when he was released. His dad, Lucas, wanted nothing more to do with Noah after his confession. Lucas happened to harbor a deep-seated secret of his own. Katie, the seven-year-old sister in this story, just wanted her big brother home and her family together.
I have to say that this is the second book I’ve read that
has led me to shed a few tears. This book explores what it is like to have a
family torn apart by a son’s actions that he could not control. This book
explores the deep-seated honest emotions of what “real” people would probably
feel in the same situation. This book explores a mother’s unconditional love
for her son, but on such a level that she did the one thing, the one thing he
wanted, to help him through his emotional suffering.
Trigger warnings: Pedophilia, suicide.
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