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Beautifully written. The imagery and the detail of the authors inner voice weave beautiful images that one can find glimpses of themselves in.
The story itself is devastating picture of loss and the way things outside our control shape us and take from us; and at the same time, how we push back against the world, and find ourselves again.

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adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

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4.0

Sean Hewitt is a poet and writer. Meeting his boyfriend Elias whilst travelling, they are smitten with each other and soon after returning home, Sean sets forth on a different adventure, moving to Sweden and in with Elias. What starts as a grand, romantic adventure soon turns dark as Elias falls into a depression that starts to consume Sean's life too. Triggered by the relationship, Hewitt starts to explore his own relationship with depression, the things he hides and his complex identity as a gay man. Drawing on Hewitt's studies of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Sean, like Hopkins attempts to find a suitable language to describe what is happening to his life. Poetic, sad and rather beautiful memoir.

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5.0

amazing showstopping lowkey want to off myself i absolutely loved the writing and as someone who has a hard time grasping poetry i loved how accessible the chosen poems were!! so many beautiful metaphors wow wow wow this makes me wanna get into poetry and shit. the only littol flaw is that the timelines were sort of confusing to me but im guessing that this was done intentionally. In the beginning i longed for more events that have occured in the early childhood and so when the book moved straight to the adult life i was left feeling rather empty, but after coming to end i figured that the way the book is structured makes sense or maybe not lol idkkk but im so sad u guys

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