holy guacamole, this book was sad. I was okay for the most part but the last 50-70 pages had me bawling for hours, making this a way slower read than I thought it would be. So good, though. Her writing is really engaging and it's not only sad - what did my German teacher use to make us say in tests? - "a tragic story is unhappy but meaningful". And that's what life is about, isn't it, the combination of feeling and meaning. So yeah, this book was fucking perfect.