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How to Make Friends with the Dark eBook by Kathleen Glasgow How to Make Friends with the Dark eBook by Kathleen Glasgow
My heart thuds. We don’t have a lot, we never have, but we’ve made do with what my mom makes as the county Bookmobile lady and from helping out at Bonita’s daycare. Come summer, we’ve got the Jellymobile, but that’s another story.Magnificent. A beautiful, heartbreaking alleluia to survival.”— Brendan Kiely, New York Times bestselling author of All American Boys How to Make Friends with the Dark is a book that will wring your heart out. It’s always been Tiger and her mother. Even if she’s a little overprotective and the struggle of her family and poverty, it’s hers. Until the day her mother dies and Tiger’s life is changed forever – throwing her into the foster care system until they can find a more permanent solution. Tiger Her face softens and I feel guilty. Once I overheard her say to Bonita, “I try to tell Tiger all the things I never got to hear, you know?”
How to Make Friends with the Dark - Penguin Random House
After surviving a tragedy for Tiger is nothing the same anymore, I really cried a lot of times reading this epic book, Kathleen has an ability when she makes the scene so perfect as you find it delightful and your face starts to laugh but right in the second comes the emotional parts and everything ruins with the potions of the reality that we all face it day after day.
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A rare and powerful novel [that] dives deep into the heart of grief and healing with honesty, empathy, and grace.”— Karen M. McManus, New York Times bestselling author of One of Us Is Lying Gripping, powerful, and full of truth.”— Kami Garcia, #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Beautiful Creatures When a previously unknown half-sister is discovered, Tiger becomes her charge, and together they reach out to their incarcerated father and try to navigate an uncertain (but hopefully forward-looking) future as a family. Secondary characters feed the narrative and provide balance to Tiger in her journey, which she measures in minutes since her mother’s death. Her short hair is matted on one side and spiky on the other. She looks around, like she recognizes nothing, like she’s an alien suddenly dropped into our strange, earthly atmosphere.