Details:
- author: Emily Barth Isler
- full title: AfterMath
- narrator: Emily Barth Isler
- genre: middle-grade
- topics: #comingofage, #schoolshooting #death #grieving #math #friends
- trigger warnings: terminal illness, school shooting, PTSD
- publisher: Lerner Audiobooks
- publish date: 07.09.2021
- timing: 05:07:00
My Rating of the Audiobook:
- content: 💙💙💙💙💙
- narration: 💙💙💙💙💙
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Excerpt from the Book:
I live in a dead girl’s house. I sleep in her room.
We knew this before we bought the house. Our real estate agent, Cheryl Ann (her full name-who on earth has the last name Ann???), mentioned it during our tour. Well, technically she only said that the couple who were selling the house had lost a daughter in the Queensland school shooting. But I know that my room is the one that used to belong to the daughter, because in my new closet, on the edge of the sliding doors-covered in an anemic, barely-there coat of white paint-I found a vertical set of hash marks, with a date written next to each mark and the name Bette written at the top.
My Thoughts:
AfterMath is a story of a twelve-year-old Lucy. Her brother died recently, and she moved with her family to a town full of grieving after a mass shooting in a local school. I liked all the math problems at the beginning of the chapters. And I love how Lucy is thinking and her explanations with maths throughout the book.
This is a beautiful coming-of-age story, but there’s a lot of sadness in this book. It is a middle-grade novel, but maybe it’s a bit too dark for this age group. I would recommend it, but I don’t think I would recommend it for middle-grade readers. Maybe in some exceptional cases. I would recommend it for adult readers who like serious topics in the middle-grade genre.
The narrator is the author herself, and I liked her narration. You could sense all the emotions in her voice.
