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Oh….my god. I’m broken into pieces. This goes right beside my favorite book ever, I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb. This book is so beautifully written, raw, haunting, sprawling, heartbreaking, hopeful. Betty and her father are two of the best characters I’ve ever, ever read. I could’ve stayed in this book forever. I’ll never forget this book, I’ll never let it go, and I’ll tell the world about it, always. This is epic. I cried so much. Fuck. It’ll take a long time to recover from this.
Betty Carpenter, the title character in “Betty” that we follow from birth to her early teens, is curious, creative and optimistic. She’s the glue that holds her family together, and her imagination brings joy to those when they need it most.
I wish she could’ve starred in a different story, because hers is filled with almost every trigger warning needed for a piece of literature, making “Betty” one of the most challenging books I’ve ever read.
The cards are stacked against her family from day one, ...more
I wish she could’ve starred in a different story, because hers is filled with almost every trigger warning needed for a piece of literature, making “Betty” one of the most challenging books I’ve ever read.
The cards are stacked against her family from day one, ...more
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