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I don't know what to rate this book. Well-written? Yes. But on a personal level, it was disturbing and I probably shouldn't have pushed myself. I've picked it up and put it down many times before; once I got a dozen pages in, I said "Well, I never want to read this again, so I'm going to finish it." I believe I only made it by keeping it at (emotional) arm's length, so I certainly didn't give it a proper reading.
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"We just want to live. If anyone would let us."
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This isn't the happiest book. No book about suicide is that cheery but this book is so artfully written that it's still worth the read. This book is the story of the five Lisbon girls' suicides but more so it is the story of the boys in the neighborhood who were intrigued by the Lisbon girls in their lives and even after their deaths.
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