Laurie Halse Anderson writes such heavy hitters oh my gOd. This was a  triggering book, but ultimately a very hopeful one. It is hard watching someone fall apart like this & hard to be in the head of someone falling apart like this but I think what Laurie Halse Anderson does in books like this one or Speak is really interesting - we watch the entire breakdown in gruesome detail, but the recovery is left in ambiguity. We build our own happy endings, y’know?