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Such Good People

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Though, at first, the book felt ponderous & slow-moving, I remembered from my own experience that grieving is like depression--one feels heavy, slowed, fatigued, as though weighted down or underwater. The author captures that feeling well in her narrative of a family grieving. For those going through (or who have gone through) a grief experience, this novel will feel very familiar. The author is skillful at creating events & descriptions that evoke an "aha" response of familiarity & recognition in the reader. My favorite authors can provide for me a sense of seeing myself in a character or a situation, a sense of identification. Ms. Hickman does this well in this sensitive novel.

Even though it is fiction, I thought this book was very accuate.Annie seems to be your typical teenager,wrapped up in sex and rebellion.The parents are like most parents of today -refusing to put their foot down for fear they will lose her.Then like that in a freak accident she is gone.The rest of the book describing the familys grieving and adjustment to life after her death is really rich and truthful.