All the Bright Places – January 6, 2015

All the Bright Places Hardcover – January 6, 2015

Author: Visit Amazon’s Jennifer Niven Page | Language: English | ISBN: 0385755880 | Format: PDF, EPUB

All the Bright Places – January 6, 2015
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• Hardcover: 400 pages


• Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers (January 6, 2015)


• Language: English


• ISBN-10: 0385755880


• ISBN-13: 978-0385755887


• Product Dimensions: 5.9 x 1.3 x 8.6 inches


• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)


• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #823 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  
  • #1 in Books > Teens > Literature & Fiction > Social & Family Issues > Depression & Mental Illness
  
  
  • #12 in Books > Teens > Literature & Fiction > Social & Family Issues > Death & Dying
  
  
  • #13 in Books > Teens > Romance > Contemporary
  
  

I didn’t really want to read this book, but I was curious. Two teens meet on the ledge of a bell tower and change each other’s lives. It’s being compared to The Fault in Our Stars (as is any emotionally resonant new YA fiction these days), which has been criticized for romanticizing cancer. I don’t agree with that assessment of that novel, but I did worry that this novel would somehow romanticize suicidal feelings. But I decided to give it a go, and I’m glad I did.

If I didn’t want to read it, I definitely didn’t want to be enchanted by the sad story, but I was. Violet is a girl dealing with the tragedy of losing her sister in a car accident a year ago. Violet and Eleanor were both in the car. Eleanor died. Violet lived. That’s a lot for a 17-year-old to handle. It’s changed her, but maybe it’s changed her into the Violet she should have been in the first place, more cerebral, less concerned with popularity.

Theodore Finch is known as Freak. He’s always changing his look and his outlook. There’s rebel Finch, 80’s Finch, Prep Finch, but who is the real one? He deals with anger and depression and suicidal thoughts. Violet captivates him, and he eventually breaks through the shell she’s built up around herself.

The book captivated me. It was a little angsty, self-absorbed, as is much of YA fiction, which creates that great combination of looking back to my past and relating with the teens in my life. But it quickly got real, too real. Finch’s battles with mental illness are inexplicable and since they are mostly seen through his POV, they aren’t explained away, which is real. We don’t often get the luxury of understanding.

When I attended kidlitcon, we began the conversation about needing diverse literature.

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