💫 Best Book of 2022 so far ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ Someone I used to know said that's the problem with adults. They just see kids as they want them to be, what they aren't, and not as they are. I think about that all the time. Like, how much time and pain and suffering could be eliminated if you just accepted the kid in front of you and stopped trying to fix them. Maybe there is no "fixing." Maybe there is just heartbreak and love and trying to help them stay alive, whatever it takes. This is an exce

"The thing about being invisible is, you’d think it would feel light and airy and easy, no pressure, but it doesn’t. It’s the heaviest thing I’ve ever known."Kathleen Glasgow writes books that hit a little too close to home for me. This one hits the nail right on the head and brought back a lot of memories from when I was a kid. So I felt every feeling of hope and despair. As we read about the Ward family dusting themselves off and falling over and over again, you fall right along with them. Pre...

8/16/2021 - rec from Beary Into Books Hoping there’ll be an audio version. 🤞🏼

Rating 3.75 The author did a great job of showing what it is like to be a family member of someone struggling with addiction. Her whole life Emory has been taking care of her older brother Joey. She would make sure he was up in time for school, she would do his homework, his chores, and would even try to hide his drinking/drugs from their parents. She did all of this because she thought she was helping him and did not want to see her parents mad. Unfortunately, she can only do so much to help so...

My God, how do I start this review!! I had a million words and they have left me…… this author, every time! I’m not fine! I’m broken! - MelThis book made me feel what I felt, feel what I feel, cry, hate, love… understand. These characters are wonderful. Flawed. They are a lot of us when we were young. A lot of us as parents and the people who are lost. When I first started reading the book I was getting myself prepared for what the author was going to do to me. I got to a point in the book that

This book suckedThere. I said it. The plot: The book is about Emmy and her brother Joey who got in a car accident. It's a story about addiction and how it affects everyone, not just the addict. I don't know what else to say since I forgot 90% of what happened. The characters: I loved (most of) the characters. I always love Kathleen Glasgow's characters. They are always really realistic. I've talked about this before but something I love about Kathleen Glasgow is how she justifies her characters....

Kathleen Glasgow's first novel is called Girl in Pieces.Well, I am officially a Girl in Pieces after reading this heart-wrenching, beautiful, and authentic book!This book tackles the topic of addiction (specifically the opioid epidemic) and its impacts on a community, schools, a family unit, and most importantly, the intricacies of a brother-sister relationship and how quickly these bonds can change.Emory feels invisible--always has--in the spotlight of picture-perfect older sister Maddie. Her b...

Yes! I have a new book! YOU'D BE HOME NOW is the story of Emmy and her brother, Joey. This is a story about how addiction touches everyone and everything in its orbit: siblings, parents, friends, community, town. It's about wanting so much to keep someone safe that you'd do anything for them...but what if love isn't enough to save someone? Happy to answer questions in comments.

“Maybe people just use different things to fill up the emptiness. Until it becomes less about feeling empty and more about feeding something else.”I picked up You’d Be Home Now because of the cover quite frankly. You see a cover with a bunch of scattered pills and I knew without even looking at the synopsis this was going to be a book involving substance abuse. I’m drawn to this subject for several reasons. One is that there are more substance dependency issues now than we have ever had in our h...

Harrowing, raw, honest and wonderfully written. You'd Be Home Now explores addiction, sibling and parental relationships, mental health, self discovery, self respect, sexuality and all their intersections in a brutal and heartfelt way that's both unflinching and sensitive in its honesty. TW: drug overdose, addiction, mention of suicide, sexual harassment.

5 resounding starsWhere do I even begin? This was an incredibly emotional read, but oh wow, I could not put it down. This was a story, at its essence, of the invisible girl in a family whose older sister is "perfect" and whose brother is a "messed up addict". The story is told from Emory's point of view and it is absolutely heartbreaking. She has always been the one in her family closest to her brother, Joey. The story begins with the accident that started the whole thing (her brother was not dr...

Breathe in! Breathe out! I’m just a weeping mess! The story of Emory and Joey hit harder to me than I expected! Brother-sister unique bounding stories are triggering subjects for me because of my personal loss! At some chapters, I stopped my reading, choking out, taking deep breathes, gathering my composure to turn back to my reading! But I’m honestly shaking to the core!I’m trembling! This epic story is realistic slap across your face! It reminds you of it’s impossible to be perfect parents an...

Audiobook….read by Kathleen Glasgow, and Julia Knippen ….12 hours and 11 minutes This contemporary young adult novel is as engaging as it is heartbreaking…..Images, and thoughts are endless as we contemplate how a car accident that killed a high school student opens up other serious issues: substance abuse being the forefront zinger that sets off a string of yet other breakdowns, and subplots ….revealing many cracks encompassing a family, a brother and sister, the high school curriculum, (studen...

Trigger warning for drug use, addiction and abuse.I flew through this book and every emotion possible whilst reading.The book begins in the aftermath of a fatal car crash involving brother and sister, Emory and Joey. The entire town of Mill Haven is shaken by the events of that night but not all of the repercussions are really seen until months later. Joey returns home to his disjointed family after a summer in rehab and Emory must face up to a new school year whilst she must take on the respons...

A story about having a family member in the throes of addiction, not about addiction itself, which are two very different novels. A story about a loved one battling addiction is often about the distance the addiction asserts, and the impossible job of reconciling that distance with the intimacy you previously had with them. We get some sense of Joey on the page, but more often than not it's his absence that defines him.I appreciate Glasgow's character development, and her refusal to romanticize

I have received this ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.You'd Be Home Now made me feel all sorts of emotions. Definitely wasn't expecting to end up in a puddle at all. Everything about Emory and Joey was beautiful and heartbreaking at the same time. Their unique bond completely drew me in and then everything else nearly broke my heart strings. Addiction is no joke. You either know someone who has been through it or is currently dealing with it. Or maybe you know someone who know...

Kathleen Glasgow knows how to emotionally devastate me in the most melancholic but hopeful way.

You'd Be Home Now By Kathleen Glasglow is a beautiful story about the struggles and addiction to drugs. When Emorys brother is released from rehab after a fatal accident that put him there Emory does everything she can to make Joey feel normal. But everything is not normal. Her family, school even her friends are a struggle. Then thinks go bad to worse. Kathleen Glasglow writes to make you feel every struggle and hard ache. I loved this book. Thank You Netgally for providing a copy of this book

2.5 starsI nearly rounded this up to three but I'm sticking with the majority of my feels on this read that quite frankly drove me wild. This book was too much of everything, too much trope, too much drama, too much trauma, too many plot devices, just too much. I think if it had been levelled out into something less, I could have gelled with it better. Also, this had one of my most hated things in YA, extremely shitty parents. It was an incredibly depressing read, fairly hopeless and I hated Gag...

You’d Be Home Now is the first book I’ve ever read by Kathleen Glasgow and she did an amazing job. Books like this are certainly never easy to write, but Kathleen did a fantastic job with it, despite the fact that she made me cry a lot. This is an intriguing story of a town, its tragedies, and the difficult events that occur in everyday life. These are imperfect and naive characters that seek support. Is their family strong enough to support them through their difficulties?In a matter of seconds...