Amy McNamara
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I spend a lot of time clucking my tongue and sighing at the lack of attention given to the nitty-gritty side of mental health in fiction.
There is often an emphasis on normal-spiral-treatment-healed.
A Flicker In the Clarity does no such thing.
Emma and Evie both stumble through their traumas and grief in their own ways, leaning on each other and away from each other in less than healthy or neatly tied up ways.
Because their journeys were presented in realistic, messy ways, the entire book felt pretty frustrating but that was what I loved about it, too.
The writing as beautiful and the story was authentic. In moments of frustration, I had to remind myself that the way each young woman was acting (either acting out or enabling of the other) was far closer to reality than I had come across before this particular book. When I could step back and gain that perspective, I was able to truly appreciate the raw beauty of the book.… (mehr)