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I’ve been reading all of my life, but I can probably only count on one hand
” No, I’m talking about when it feels like an author’s story and words have reached
Sure, one could argue I could be a bit biased against The People We Keep
I started reaching out to public figures I knew and loved, hoping they’d be interested in
When I first read The People We Keep last summer, it wasn’t hard to describe my
I developed such a profound personal connection to the novel, one I soon realized was because of
It’s a common literary trope, where a protagonist goes through a period of personal anguish only
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But in order to successfully implement the found family trope, as Larkin certainly does here, it’s
It’s the first time I’ve ever thought of getting older in a real way, where
There’s a new person waiting for me to catch up, and maybe she’s happy
Maybe it was the depression speaking, but as I got older, I had a sense that life
Perhaps it was just that I had trauma bonded with The People We Keep during a time
It served as a reminder that life didn’t actually stop altogether during the worst parts of
I was still living, and so was April, ready to live again whenever I felt like opening