As someone who has struggled with her faith, this book sort of hit home with me. Just like Samara, I’ve attended church all my life and even went to a Christian University where I still struggled with my faith and what to believe when things got really rough in my life. This book made me think ab...
When she is caught in the backseat of a car with her older brother's best friend—Deanna Lambert's teenage life is changed forever. Struggling to overcome the lasting repercussions and the stifling role of "school slut," she longs to escape a life defined by her past. With subtle grace, complicate...
“I do have more memories of Cameron, things I know for sure, good and bad. Like: (…) How us being together all the time made us a bigger target, the whole of our exile being greater than the sum of our outcast parts. How we didn’t care because we had each other.”Initial Final Page Thoughts.I love...
I’m lying there in my bed listening to P.J. softly breathing, and Gertie not-so-softly snoring, and there’s a crushing feeling, a sort of pressing, on my chest and neck. It comes from nowhere. I mean in the sense that when it starts I’m not having consciously anxious thoughts.About, for instance,...
When Dad and I used to tell each other to try a little tenderness, we meant calm down, be soft, stop having to be right, give a person the benefit of the doubt for a change. We never talked about what it’s like to be on the receiving end of it. How it leaves you the other kind of tender—raw, brui...
Here’s what we know: three hikers were a few miles off the Ridgeline Trail when they literally stumbled onto a human hand, and immediately notified authorities. As you can imagine, there was concern that the remains were somehow related to thirteen-year-old Jody Shaw, who has been missing for nea...