Captivating, heartbreaking, strangely hopeful. I was drawn in by the themes of sisterhood and mental health, but stayed for the thread of empathy running throughout the story. I don’t know that I’ve ever read a book written with such tenderness and compassion towards its characters, even in their faults. I truly loved and felt for every character in the story, despite their mistakes and humanity. The book raised such thought-provoking questions about how much we can really understand another’s perspective, and whether we need to in order to have compassion for them. Altogether beautifully written, woven, and executed. It’s a story I’ll be sitting with for a while.