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All the Bright Places

Pages
390
Published
2015
Language
English

Synopsis

Theodore Finch is fascinated by death and spends his days trying to find reasons to stay alive. Violet Markey lives for the future, counting down the days until she can leave her small Indiana town behind and escape the guilt of surviving the car accident that killed her sister. When the two meet on the narrow ledge of the school bell tower, it's unclear who saves whom, and neither is quite willing to say.

Thrown together for a class project to discover the "natural wonders" of Indiana, Finch and Violet begin to explore their state and each other, and it is only with Finch that Violet can be her real self, and only with Violet that Finch feels truly alive. But as Violet's world begins to expand, Finch's starts to shrink. Told in alternating voices, Jennifer Niven's bestselling novel is an unflinching, tender story about first love, mental illness, and the marks that even brief connections leave on us.

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Prose complexity 1/10
Content warnings (5)
SuicideSelf HarmAbuseTraumaEating Disorder

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