"When even the sky is a reminder you've got problems. Annabelle knows. Grief is everywhere. It's its own being. It walks beside you silently, jumps out at you meanly, pokes you awake at night. It makes tears roll down your cheeks at a blue sky."
I feel trigger warnings are very important. But as they are a spoiler for this particular books, I will leave them at the bottom so you can look at them in you are concerned for any possible triggers.
Annabelle has gone through trauma that has left her changed forever. The only way Annabelle knows how to maintain some semblance of control is to run. She has been seeing a counselor to help cope with her trauma, but she is still not the self she was before it all happened. Her running is a journey she takes alongside her trauma, and like anyone who experiences trauma, you take it one day at a time, everyday you think you can't make it and deal with setbacks that take your mind back to when everything came tumbling down. The journey she took with her running was a symbol of perseverance and survival in when you feel like it's impossible.
This book handled trauma very delicately and only alluded to what our character went through until the last part of the book, when they reveal to you what happened that shattered her life. In the author's delay of fully explaining the trauma, I began to feel the process of trauma is universal (in spite of the triggers being different for everyone). Trauma takes your breath away time and time again, it is something you live with and struggle with regardless of what the trauma is. This made me feel we are all united in trauma regardless of the face it wears or the weapons it's used to destroy us. This feel made this book distinct to me and memorable.
I love this book so much, and I loved all the parallel stories. It was lovely and it touched a cord in me.
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TW: Gun Violence, Murder, Harassment, PTSD, Animal murder,
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