Would you like to get You’d Be Home Now PDF Free Download? Did you enjoy reading Kathleen Glasgow’s first novel is called Girl in Pieces? Well, You’d Be Home Now PDF is another great work from Kathleen Glasgow. You’d Be Home Now by Kathleen Glasgow PDF book tackles the topic of addiction (specifically the opioid epidemic) and its impacts on a community, schools, a family unit, and most importantly, the intricacies of a brother-sister relationship and how quickly these bonds can change. The author did a great job of showing what it is like to be a family member of someone struggling with addiction.
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You’d Be Home Now PDF Free Download Details
- Book Title: You’d Be Home Now PDF
- Author: Kathleen Glasgow
- Published: September 28th 2021
- Goodreads Link: You’d Be Home Now by Kathleen Glasgow PDF
- ISBN: 9780525708049
- Formats: [PDF] [Epub]
- No. of pages: 400
- Size: 3 MB
- Genre: Fiction, Young Adult, Mental Health, Contemporary, Realistic Fiction
- Language: English
- File Status: Available
- Price: $0
You’d Be Home Now by Kathleen Glasgow PDF Summary
From the New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Pieces comes a breathtaking story about a town, its tragedies, and the quiet beauty of everyday life.
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.
Inspired by the American classic Our Town, You’d Be Home Now is Kathleen Glasgow’s glorious modern story of a town and the secret lives people live there. And the story of a girl, figuring out life in all its pain and beauty and struggle and joy.
You’d Be Home Now by Kathleen Glasgow Book Review
[Review From Goodreads]
Breathe in! Breathe out! I’m just a weeping mess! The story of Emory and Joey hit harder to me than I expected! Brother-sister unique bounding stories are triggering subjects for me because of my personal loss! At some chapters, I stopped my reading, choking out, taking deep breathes, gathering my composure to turn back to my reading! But I’m honestly shaking to the core!I’m trembling!
This epic story is realistic slap across your face! It reminds you of it’s impossible to be perfect parents and it’s impossible to raise perfect kids. There’s no formula, no instruction book! I wish it could. You read the manual and fix your children’s problems like fixing an IKEA furniture. It’s obvious you will make mistakes and you cannot direct your children’s lives by putting restrictions, giving them long lists, choosing their friends, controlling the choices they make. That’s not how parenting works. You’re doomed to make mistakes, screw things over but you also try harder to learn from them.
The opening of the book is mind blowing! Emory finds herself trapped in a car, as her brother’s bestie Leonard is driving it like a madman, while Emory tries to soothe Candy who is screaming at the top of her lungs because Emory’s brother Joey passed out at the back seat of the car. He doesn’t move,probably OD’d. And BAM!
Emory opens her eyes at the hospital, her leg in a cast, confused, numb. Her sister Maddie is by her side, parents arguing because her brother was overdosed and his best friend Leonard is sent to juvie because he killed Candy- yes that innocent, sweet girl who wanted to leave the party earlier because of severe headache, trapped in a car with them and now she’s casualty of the tragic innocent.
Emory has been already struggling from lack of social life. Her only friend Liza has been cut out of her life because of her mother’s intervention and now entire school blames her and her brother because of Candy’s death. She’s wounded, she’s pariah and she is also designated caretaker of her brother who returns back from rehab. Their mother gives them long lists filled with rules as if they’re her junior assistants instead of kids.
Emory is always negotiator, peacemaker, doing always what her parents told her, obedient, sweet, good daughter of the family as her big sister is beauty queen, smart, popular college student and her brother… her rebellious, artsy, introvert brother Joey always gets the full attention with his addiction problem.
Emory needs to be seen, to be cared, to be listened! Nobody hears her silent screams or sees invisible scars! She feels invisible, passing through two workaholic parents and her suffering brother in the house and she wants to scream: “ please let me live my own life! I don’t want more responsibilities! I want to live my own life! I want to make my own choices! “
She has a crush on her neighbor next door: Gage, making out with him secretly at the pool house. But even Gage insists to keep things secret, hiding their intimate moments in the dark, keeping her in the shadows.
The question is simple: what are you going to do with your one wild and precious life?
She needs to be seen! She needs to be cared! She needs to be heard!
But she also sees her brother’s struggle. She has to help him but how can she help a person who doesn’t need to get help.
This book is deep, heart wrenching, soul crushing family drama. It’s about parenting, addiction, bullying, #metoomovement, slut-shaming, cancer, sibling bonding, friendship!
It’s touching, tear jerking, sentimental and the conclusion of the story is so realistic and gut punching!
I want to finish my review with some parts I chose from Emory’s stunning poem:
I’m a girl on a stage and I have nothing beautiful for you.
I’m a girl on a stage and you think you know my story.
But how can you know my story when I haven’t written it yet.
When I haven’t had a chance to live it yet.
How can you know my story
When you don’t even know me!
Giving my five tear jerking, self respect, self discovery, bravery, growing spine stars!
About the Author [Kathleen Glasgow]
Kathleen Glasgow is the author of YOU’D BE HOME NOW, THE AGATHAS, GIRL IN PIECES (a New York Times bestseller and Target Book Club pick), and HOW TO MAKE FRIENDS WITH THE DARK. Visit her on Twitter (@kathglasgow), Instagram (misskathleenglasgow), her website (www.kathleenglasgowbooks.com), or TikTok @kathleenglasgow.
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