k.a Tiger’s tragic journey after her loosing her mother is so realistic so sad but also so genuine, poignant and easy to connect. Obwohl ich "TikTok" eher zwiegespalten gegenüberstehe, bin ich der Plattform immens dankbar dafür, dass die Bücher von Kathleen Glasgow nun doch weiter übersetzt werden. I loved this book’s approach to the importance of sisterhood, friendship and sharing yourself instead of bottling up everything inside and living with paranoias. The writing was fantastic, the characters were insightful and brimming with depth, and the theme was topical and on point. It is forbidden to copy anything for publication elsewhere without written permission from the copyright holder.

It is important to get to know about them, they are there and for many people a reality even if it can be hard to acknowledge that. A lot of stuff happens and its important and I think delving into it more and exploring the consequences of people's choices would have turned this into a 5 star read for me. How to Make Friends with the Dark was my first novel by Kathleen Glasgow and I have to admit, I’m extremely impressed.Glasgow's Schreibstil ist sehr intensiv und lässt ebenso intensiv mitfühlen und Augen feucht werden. I've never suffered this specific kind of loss, but I have overcome death-induced depression after the suicide of my friend in high school, so while I could connect with the sentiments on a base level, they didn't inspire any real emotion in me. My heart breaks every time I think about where she’s placed right now and I hope, I can only pray that she’s not alone wherever she really is. I was getting flashbacks to how I felt in high school, looking around me at all the girls that seemed so mature while I felt like a lump of misshapen dough. She rubbed ointment on me, made sure I showered, made sure I took my medicine and she did it every single time I was sick.

I had such a hard time figuring out who the speaker was sometimes, because dialogue would continue into the next paragraph, but the new speaker rule was followed, even though the speaker was often the same. In Kathryn Glasgow's How to Make Friends with the Dark, 16-year-old Tiger learns that her mother is dead, and almost equally upsetting, she can't even go somewhere familiar to stay while she figures out how to adjust to being an orphan; with no known father or other relatives, she is relegated to the legal responsibility of the state of Arizona and uprooted from the life and the people she knew. Tiger obsesses over the last words she screamed to her mom, “Why can’t you ever just fucking leave me alone?The story of one girl’s quest for clarity and forgiveness after an awful, universe-gone-mad-mistake. She has always been around every single time I’ve left this house, left the country and she was there every single time I came back, happy.