Michael Rosen's Sad Book

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A visceral and compelling mystery about a Cherokee archeologist for the Bureau of Indian Affairs who is summoned to rural Oklahoma to investigate the disappearance of two women … one of them her sister.

When Ruby, a baby Elephant, joins them to learn Stella’s tricks, Ivan begins to feel a sense of longing and responsibility. On the advice of a therapist, Riley starts an anonymous blog to vent those pent-up feelings and tell the truth of what it’s really like to be a gender fluid teenager. This coming-of-age story follows an African American girl named Taja Brown, as she grows up in Texas amid family expectations and a need to discover herself and where she belongs.When he dies, his widow, Caldonia, succumbs to profound grief, and things begin to fall apart at their plantation: slaves take to escaping under the cover of night, and families who had once found love beneath the weight of slavery begin to betray one another. Their relationship, while rocky at first, eventually grows into something more fulfilling than either expected, making the book’s inevitable end even more upsetting.

In the rest of the book Rosen explains how he copes – or doesn't cope – when he is in that "deep dark" place and feels sad.

But just as Riley’s starting to settle in at school—even developing feelings for a mysterious outcast—the blog goes viral, and an unnamed commenter discovers Riley’s real identity, threatening exposure. Exploring motherhood, marriage, friendship, and memory, even as she wrestles with the legacy of her great-great-great grandfather, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nina Riggs’s breathtaking memoir continues the urgent conversation that Paul Kalanithi began in his gorgeous When Breath Becomes Air . Fourteen-year-old African American, Celie, has and will continue to endure more trauma than you thought possible. And so she was both elated and saddened when, at twelve, she joined her parents and youngest brothers in New York City. So they carry on in secret until Nasrin’s parents suddenly announce that they’ve arranged for her marriage.

But maybe because he was so beautiful he was never someone Fern thought she could have…until he wasn’t beautiful anymore.This tortured love story follows the life of young Wavy, whose only comfort from her drug-ensnared family is an ex-con named Kellen. The Guardian noted that the book was indeed sad but highly recommended it, saying, " Sad Book doesn't hide the darkness. In the rainy Seattle of the 1920s, romance blooms among the jazz clubs, the mansions of the wealthy, and the shanty towns of the poor. In the telling, bizarre ancestors appear before our eyes; we hear both delightful and bitter childhood memories, amazing anecdotes of youthful years, and the most intimate secrets passed along in whispers.