Name: Aimee
ISBN: 9780142400258

Mary Beth Miller

Zoe and her family move to a new town after she is acquitted of helping her friend Aimee commit suicide where she must overcome the loneliness, guilt, and anger in her new life in order to save herself from the same fate. An ALA Best Book for Young Adults. Reprint.

Aimee

Monicap

There was something true in this book. There was something that hit the bedrock of what life is. And this book made me legit cry.
We don’t learn the main characters name until very late in the narrative of this book, because this is not about the main character. It’s about all the things around her, and how her spot in the universe effects it, and how all the other things in the universe effect her spot in it. 
It’s about a girl who was blamed for something horrible that happened to her. 
It’s about loss and how do you move on from that? How do you fill that empty spot in the universe? How do you learn to live around it? 
And learning to live around this empty spot is made even harder by the way other people reacted. 
I loved this book. I loved how the situation was never fully explained, I love how it didn’t end at the end. I love how it did end, with the start of things mending, with the just barely trying to live around this empty spot. 
And I really, really loved Chard.

Caitlin Berger

Wow, this book blew me away! I have to say, I'm a bit biased because I enjoy reading most books that speak about depression/mental illness/suicide/etc. (I know that sounds kind of masochistic...I'm just interested in the human psyche, c'est tout!) But really, the writing was fantastic! The characters were memorable and felt relatable. I 100% recommend this book to anyone! A great read, very worthwhile.

Aimee

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