Suicide Notes from Beautiful Girls by Lynn Weingarten

I started dabbling in this & that when I was 13yrs old. Wow! This book kept my interest the entire time, I'm 48yrs old and I spent 25yrs in active addiction. People spend so much time telling her who she is - it might be time to decide for herself.Ī 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. 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. Mill Haven wants everyone to live one story, but Emmy's beginning to see that people are more than they appear.

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? The car accident that revealed just how bad Joey's drug habit was.įour 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. Everything was turned on its head, though, when she and Joey were in the car accident that killed Candy MontClaire. And at home, she's the good one, her stoner older brother Joey's babysitter. At school she's hot Maddie Ward's younger sister. In town she's the rich one - the great-great-granddaughter of the mill's founder. 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.įor all of Emory's life she's been told who she is. From the New York Times best-selling author of Girl in Pieces comes a stunning novel that Vanity Fair calls “impossibly moving” and “suffused with light”.

Suicide Notes from Beautiful Girls by Lynn Weingarten