Just like in Kathleen Glasgow's other novel Girl in Pieces, it starts slow and then goes sideways fast. I've never suffered this specific kind of loss, but I have overcome death-induced depression after the suicide of my friend in high school, so while I could connect with the sentiments on a base level, they didn't inspire any real emotion in me. The plot takes an unexpected turn and the latter half of the book becomes about how to keep going on despite an enormous hole in your heart through friendship and discovering a new family relationship when Tiger finds out she has an older sister, a sister who represents adults who do their best to make lives of these poor children a bit better.

Not only were we dealing with the tragic, unexpected death of a family member, we then had to deal with a homicide trial and far too much publicity. How there are people who aren’t the best, and shouldn’t be looking after children, and the people who really care. Insgesamt finde ich es sehr beeindruckend, wie gut Kathleen Glasgow das Innenleben traumatisierter Jugendlicher versteht und in Worte fassen kann.Thaddeus came out of nowhere and became her friend in a very short period of time, which felt rushed and unrealistic to me, though I appreciated that he didn't just become a love interest as these characters tend to. Tiger, Cake, and Thaddeus (and Mae-Lynn, and Shayna, and Lupe, and LaLa, and Sarah, and Leonard, and June.

It was shocking to see her, how she dwindled down to nearly nothing, but I can imagine how much pain she must be feeling. The story follows Tiger (who’s real name is Grace) who for all intents and purposes is your average teenage girl. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. How to Make Friends with the Dark was my first novel by Kathleen Glasgow and I have to admit, I’m extremely impressed.A brilliant, honest, raw look at what it really means to lose someone essential and make grudging peace with what is gained in the exchange. Kathleen Glasgow is the New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Pieces and How to Make Friends with the Dark and has been published in 26 countries.

How to Make Friends with the Dark takes you on a wild ride from a normal school day with the hopes of kissing your crush to literally the worst moment for anyone to go through: identifying your mother's body in a morgue.It was maybe just the right book at the right time, but it has been a while since I’ve teared up over a book. Glasgow uses Tiger's gaze to look not only inward at her own grief, but through a wider lens to account for other kinds of grief, loss and pain too. She is thrust out of the push and pull of normal adolescent rebellion with her mother into a situation that requires . As she slowly begins to make a way for herself, Tiger creates a new kind of family, some related and some not, who will love her and travel forward with her.

i loved how we got to know tiger on such a personal level, got to connect with her and really felt her pain and fears concerning different aspects of her life and what’s to come. From page one, Tiger Tolliver grabs your heart with her pain, her courage, her humor – and she doesn’t let go. Ca și cum mergi fără să-ți fi rămas prea multă piele, ca și cum toată lumea îți vede oasele și inima, acum, că mama ta e moartă? I am a naturally optimistic person and I hope that when we come out on the other side we will be kinder to each other, and gentler to the planet. A few glimmers of hope appear in the form of friendships and kindnesses, but this narrative is chiefly a first-person experience of the void left behind when the most important person in a young woman’s life is suddenly gone.I was surprised by what happened to Tiger in the end, but Kathleen Glasgow is good enough to hide that surprise until the end. It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its . It never goes away because when you lose someone you lose some parts of yourselves and you turn into a different person. You see, because so many bad things happened to our main character Tiger, it was really hard for me to speed through the story. I loved this book’s approach to the importance of sisterhood, friendship and sharing yourself instead of bottling up everything inside and living with paranoias.