A review by zeeohee
The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko by Scott Stambach

4.0

Interesting premise. Feels unique but also not somehow. A teen boy has lived his whole life inside a hospital for “gravely ill children” in Belarus until one day he meets a leukemia patient and it shifts something for him. It has some controversial reviews due to the narrators explanations of other disabled children within the hospital but I didn’t find it offensive but rather the musings and thoughts of a sad 17 year old boy with limited interaction with the world and who is very depressed. That, rather than anything intentionally malicious. It was a sweet story though sad