Sorrow and Bliss
Meg Mason
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
4.15
· 26 ratings · 352 pages · Published: 02 Sep 2020
Because there's something wrong with Martha. There has been since a little bomb went off in her brain, at seventeen, leaving her changed in a way no doctor or drug could fix then and no one, even now, can explain--why can say she is so often sad, cruel to everyone she loves, why she finds it harder to be alive than other people.
With Patrick gone, the only place Martha has left to go is her childhood home, to live with her chaotic parents, to survive without Ingrid, the sister who made their growing-up bearable, who said she would never give up on Martha, and who finally has.
It feels like the end but maybe, by going back, Martha will get to start again. Maybe there is a different story to be written, if Martha can work out where to begin.
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- contemporary 3
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- psychological 2
- funny 2
- drama 2
- coming of age 2
- grief 1
- divorce/breakup 1
- domestic drama 1
- female mc 1
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- mental illness 3
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