How to Make Friends with the Dark is breathtaking and heartbreaking, and I loved it with all my heart. i don’t have any personal experiences whatsoever, but the fosters is one of my favorite shows of all time which deals with foster families and how much of a mess the american foster care system is. But thank goodness, the main character has so much humor, it has become an inherent part of her language. My heart is in a permanent state of broken and it will always have a hole in it for as long as I live. My grandmother had a garden full of plants, a house filled with fishes and turtles and she loved hosting.

Traded from foster home to foster home, from strangers to family and back again, she mourns her mother. It never goes away because when you lose someone you lose some parts of yourselves and you turn into a different person. i feel like if how to make friends with the dark had been praised by everyone i watch on booktube and everyone whose opinions are similar to mine, i would’ve been heavily disappointed. We didnt need the ranch scene, especially since it did very little to show her mother’s love of horses. On the day Tiger and Kai, a boy from school, finally kiss (something Tiger has been dreaming about for a long time), the unthinkable happens: Tiger’s mother dies.I think most readers will find the immediate removal of any agency from the teenager just as jarring as Tiger herself does.

Kathleen Glasgow is unflinching in the face of pain and we could all stand to learn how to make friends with the dark.I realize every person experiences grief differently, but Tiger's felt more than a little over-the-top. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. The raw, gaping hole in her heart is all that remains and Tiger has to learn how to make friends with the dark. On a day like any other, after harsh words you can't take back are exchanged, Tiger's mother unexpectedly dies.

Just when Tiger feels she can no longer bear the way her life is managed, the unimaginable happens and her mother dies. The story talks about grief, friendships, family relationships, foster care and all kinds of domestic violence. Kathleen Glasgow's novel How to Make Friends with the Dark beautifully explores the complexity, the isolation, the raw pain you feel when someone you love dies. Those last 200 pages are gripping, but I just feel this book would have benefited from reducing the cyclical thoughts and spreading out the action over more pages.Obwohl ich "TikTok" eher zwiegespalten gegenüberstehe, bin ich der Plattform immens dankbar dafür, dass die Bücher von Kathleen Glasgow nun doch weiter übersetzt werden. after all the positive stuff, there’s also some negative things as this wasn’t a perfect book for me personally. How to Make Friends with the Dark is probably the closest you will get to a lyrical, beautiful, helpful manual to grief.