Prasetya Nababan

You'd Be Home Now

Book by Kathleen Glasgow

DETAILS

Publisher : Ember (November 8, 2022) Language : English Paperback : 416 pages ISBN-10 : 0525708073 ISBN-13 : 978-0525708070 Reading age : 14 - 17 years Lexile measure : HL570L Grade level : 9 - 12 , From the New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Pieces comes a stunning novel that Vanity Fair calls “impossibly moving” and “suffused with light”. In this raw, deeply personal story, a teenaged girl struggles to find herself amidst the fallout of her brother's addiction in a town ravaged by the opioid crisis. For all of Emory's life she's been told who she is. In town she's the rich one--the great-great-granddaughter of the mill's founder. At school she's hot Maddie Ward's younger sister. And at home, she's the good one, her stoner older brother Joey's babysitter. Everything was turned on its head, though, when she and Joey were in the car accident that killed Candy MontClaire. The car accident that revealed just how bad Joey's drug habit was.  Four months later, Emmy's junior year is starting, Joey is home from rehab, and the entire town of Mill Haven is still reeling from the accident. Everyone's telling Emmy who she is, but so much has changed, how can she be the same person? Or was she ever that person at all?  Mill Haven wants everyone to live one story, but Emmy's beginning to see that people are more than they appear. Her brother, who might not be "cured," the popular guy who lives next door, and most of all, many "ghostie" addicts who haunt the edges of the town. People spend so much time telling her who she is--it might be time to decide for herself. A journey of one sister, one brother, one family, to finally recognize and love each other for who they are, not who they are supposed to be, You'd Be Home Now is Kathleen Glasgow's glorious and heartbreaking story about the opioid crisis, and how it touches all of us. Read more

REVIEW

I stayed up till 2am on a work night finishing this book, and cried throughout the final 20%. As someone who unfortunately has first-hand experience with the subject of substance abuse in the family, and who wrote my own novel on a similar subject, I felt every word was true: the push-pull between enabling and letting go, the waves of helplessness among the addict and those who love him. I'm writing this a week after finishing the book, and it still reverberates.

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