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Title: Very real, but VERY depressing!
Review: Yes, this book was good in that it seemed to accurately portray the breakdown of a family when one of its members actually "breaks down".However, it is an extremely depressing book in that no one seems to get any better. Angie floats around, mostly in a paranoid state, in and out of hospitals, group homes and her own home. Luke leaves college, leaves his girlfriend, drifts around for a while, then gets back with his girlfriend and goes back home (doing what, I'm not sure - the book wasn't clear on that). Pieter keeps playing his cello and wallowing in self pity. And Jordana never fully copes or even comes to term with Angie's illness. She is also drifting.This may be reality, but it is an extremely depressing reality. I have read "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and loved it. This book is NOTHING like "Cuckoo Nest".
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