You'd Be Home Now

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In lit class Liza stages a revolt because she doesn't like the books the teacher has suggested. Fair enough to finding classics antiquated and out of touch. I hated mandatory school reading 9 times out of 10. Plus, I think that as long as you're respectful you should be able to bring up your point to a teacher and not get shot down. My issue is that Liza is wrong in her reasoning. I've read Girl in Pieces by this author and LOVED it so I had high expectations for this one! I don't like it better than Girl in Pieces but this was still very meaningful and impactful. From the New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Pieces comes a breathtaking contemporary YA about addiction, family and finding your voice.

Liza start off unnecessarily aggressive with a question about why they're reading a book about a pedophile ie Lolita. While you may not like Lolita there is a lot of merit to it that is often lost today entirely because many people write it off as the 'pedophile' book. Liza's argument is that it's "a really problematic book about the assault of a child by an adult, some hellacious gaslighting and there could be, you never know, some people in this very room who may be sexual assault survivors." Delivery with Standard Australia Post usually happens within 2-10 business days from time of dispatch. Please be aware that the delivery time frame may vary according to the area of delivery and due to various reasons, the delivery may take longer than the original estimated timeframe. Emory is the rich girl in Mill Haven. She’s also known as Maddie’s younger, less hot sister. But worst of all she’s Joey’s baby sister. Joey who’s known as one of the druggie stoners in town and the high school they attend. Emmy does everything she can to keep the peace within her family, keep her brothers secrets, and to fit into the box that everyone wants her in. That is until one fateful night she and her brother get into a horrible car accident. An accident that claims Candy MontClaire’s life on the way home from a high school party.

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You don’t know what is going to happen, or how things are going to end, and we probably get into way too much trouble trying to plan for and predict these things.”

Nails what it’s like to love someone with an addiction and humanizes the struggle of a teenage drug addict.”—Hayley Krischer, author of Something Happened to Ali GreenleafAs for the romantic ones, I didn't care for any of them, which isn't surprising since I don't normally like romance in these types of books, such as contemporaries. If romance is the main plot, then yes, I love it, but not if it's just a little side thing that doesn't have much development. Though I will admit, the romance in this (at the end, mind you) is cute. Again, you will go through a never-ending roller coaster of feelings with this book guys. I can only warn you so much. Maybe there's a light at the end of the tunnel. Maybe there isn't. I don't want to spoil anything about the journey someone may or may not have to take. Just know that it's beautiful and hard to look away from. My whole life, I just wanted to feel better. Forget about what a loser I was. And then I found a way to do that.

Josh has a relapse and disappears, leaving Emory just beside herself with grief. She feels responsible. Just when she thinks it’s impossible for things to get ANY worse, PICTURES appear of her and Gage that were never meant to be seen. This story is supposed to be inspired by a classic called Our Town. I don’t know what that is to be honest. I’ve never heard of it so I can’t make any comparisons, but on it’s own I consider You’d Be Home Now a pretty powerful story. And it’s not just about drug use, it’s also a story of a girl who is tired of living her life for everyone else. She’s ready to put herself first and find out who Emmy is and what she wants.

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I haven't been in the review-writing mood lately but I want to write about a sad book to feed off of my sad emotions so here we are. Sometimes your life falls to ash and you sift through, waiting for the pain to pass, looking for the remnants in the debris, something to save, when really all you need is right there, inside you". You'd Be Home Now is the story of a teenage girl figuring out life in all it's beauty, pain, joy, and struggles. Emory, for her whole life has been told who she is. In the town of Mill Haven, Emory is known as the rich kid, the great-great granddaughter of the mill's founder. The mill is basically like a little shopping center strip mall, stores, dry cleaners, places where people can get help if they struggle with addiction. At school, Emory is known as hot Maddie Ward's younger sister. Maddie is now away from home in college, but since she went to the school the Emory now goes to, everyone knows Emory as Maddie's younger sister. At home, Emory is known as one of the good Ward kids, but also known as her stoner brother, Joey's babysitter. One night, everything was turned on it's head, Joey and Emory attended a party where drinking and drugs were involved. Emory only had about two drinks, Joey was high out of his mind, and their friend Luther was completely wasted. There was another girl there, Candy MontClair. While the book maybe didn’t quite need to be as long as it was, I think the events included at the end were important in giving all of the characters closure. We see how parts of a community can come together to support each other, and we get to see high school students taking a stand for themselves. Emory also gains the courage to make her voice heard, and when she does, it’s such a powerful moment in the story.

What I am saying is that this particular brand of feminist character - the pushy, belligerent white girl who tells it like it is - ages me tremendously whenever she makes an appearance. She feels like the worst aspects of mainstream feminism compartmentalized for only other mainstream feminists to hype up. They always think it's so cool to be above it all and throw out their pithy one liners when really it's emotional immaturity. i see a lot of people asking for sad book requests, so if you’re one of them, stop your search right now: you need to read this book. For all of Emory's life she's been told who she is. In town she's the rich one—the great-great-granddaughter of the mill's founder. At school she's hot Maddie Ward's younger sister. And at home, she's the good one, her stoner older brother Joey's babysitter. Everything was turned on its head, though, when she and Joey were in the car accident that killed Candy MontClaire. The car accident that revealed just how bad Joey's drug habit was. Emory starts the book with really no support system (hence the reason Gage is so impactful). Her mother is cold, and if she received any remotely bad news, she'd probably just yell at Emory anyway. And her dad spends so much time at the hospital, he's oblivious to anything going on in the house. She's lost all her kinda friends from dance team because they don't want to be associated with a girl who was in the car when Candy died in the accident that ruined Emory's knee, got her brother sent to rehab, and finally busted Luther. Over the course of the book, though, Emory finds a new, better group- Luther's younger brother who gets Emory's exact struggle, Jeremy, Emory's ex-childhood best friend, Liza, and Daniel from English class who always wears the scarves. Liza is so incredibly smart and witty, and I immediately both wanted to be Liza and be her best friend. And Daniel offered Emory a look at what real, genuine love is. Each of her new friends is dealing with their own family trauma or past struggles, so there's little judgement and heaps of compassion to go around. Emory was a good and complex character. She was relatable in some cases, like academics and feeling like a failure, which was interesting to read about. I loved her character development throughout the book, where she learned to be brave and to stand up for herself.

You'd Be Home Now

Invisibility does that to you. Strips away fancy layers, leaves just the bones and blood. Just enough to get around.”