Name: Driving Home to You
ISBN: 9781368101936

Clare Osongco

Driving Home to You

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Krys C.

Midnights With You literally feels like midnight, that space in time where you find yourself vulnerable and hanging around in a melancholic liminal space. It’s written with a quiet anguish that perfectly encapsulates the rage and sadness of the characters as well as convey such emotions to the reader. 

Deedee’s life is closed off, thanks to her emotionally abusive mother. But then she meets Jay, and they find comfort in each other. However, their trauma threatens everything about their relationship with each other, with their families, and with their friends.

Although this is pitched as a romance, this is also a coming-of-age, slice-of-life story. It’s a complex and nuanced book. Diaspora and generational trauma, emotional abuse and how it’s spilled over and manifested in Deedee’s self-worth and other relationships, difficult and seemingly irreparable mother-daughter relationships, the common plight of Asian immigrant kids—all put on plain print with such raw and honest words. It's also realistic how there's a push and pull with all these relationships and realizations. It shows us that healing is not linear at all.

There’s so many lessons to be learned from this book. I often found myself in Deedee’s shoes while reading, and I feel like I just grew up alongside her once I finished this. It had me bursting into tears two pages in. So, so beautiful. It’s “i love you, it’s ruining my life” coded, but they all heal and make better choices in the end. It will make you reflect and contemplate your life.

Safe to say, this ruined me on a personal level and I will now be begging everyone to read this once it comes out.

Thank you so much to Clare Osongco for the ARC :>

Driving Home to You

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