4.5
Young adult
'School: failure. Romance: failure. Family: failure. Suicide: failure.
This brave and moving novel by the author of Marcelo in the Real World is about the one thing left: living. When Vicky Cruz wakes up in the Lakeview Hospital Mental Disorders ward, she knows one thing: she can't even commit suicide right. But for once, a mistake works out well for her, as she meets Mona, the live wire; Gabriel, the saint; E.M., always angry; and Dr. Desai, a quiet force. With stories and honesty, kindness and hard work, they push her to reconsider her life before Lakeview, and offer her an acceptance she's never had.
But Vicky's newfound peace is as fragile as the roses that grow around the hospital. And when a crisis forces the group to split up, sending her back to the life that drove her to suicide, Vicky must try to find the strength to carry on. She may not have it. She doesn't know.
Inspired in part by the author's own experience with depression, The Memory of Light is the rare young adult novel that focuses not on the events leading up to a suicide attempt, but the recovery from oneabout living when life doesn't seem worth it, and how we go on anyway.'
© 2016 Scholastic Audio (Luisterboek): 9780545910958
Publicatiedatum
Luisterboek: 1 februari 2016
4.5
Young adult
'School: failure. Romance: failure. Family: failure. Suicide: failure.
This brave and moving novel by the author of Marcelo in the Real World is about the one thing left: living. When Vicky Cruz wakes up in the Lakeview Hospital Mental Disorders ward, she knows one thing: she can't even commit suicide right. But for once, a mistake works out well for her, as she meets Mona, the live wire; Gabriel, the saint; E.M., always angry; and Dr. Desai, a quiet force. With stories and honesty, kindness and hard work, they push her to reconsider her life before Lakeview, and offer her an acceptance she's never had.
But Vicky's newfound peace is as fragile as the roses that grow around the hospital. And when a crisis forces the group to split up, sending her back to the life that drove her to suicide, Vicky must try to find the strength to carry on. She may not have it. She doesn't know.
Inspired in part by the author's own experience with depression, The Memory of Light is the rare young adult novel that focuses not on the events leading up to a suicide attempt, but the recovery from oneabout living when life doesn't seem worth it, and how we go on anyway.'
© 2016 Scholastic Audio (Luisterboek): 9780545910958
Publicatiedatum
Luisterboek: 1 februari 2016
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Jooke
3 sep 2020
An intriguing, interesting, touching and disarming story about a teenage girl who suffers from depression and learns to aknowledge it for what is and how to cope after a suicide attempt. She finds the understanding, support and motivation thanks to her "new friends" at group therapy who battle each their own demons.It is intersting and sad to have a look into someone else's psyche, how they experience all the good intentions of "normal" people and that it's not as simple as one specific situation that makes someone lash out or give up.Also the author writes from his own experience.
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