You'd Be Home Now
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3.6 • 7 Ratings
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Publisher Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Pieces comes a breathtaking contemporary YA about addiction, family and finding your voice.
'impossibly moving' Vanity Fair
Emmy is the good one. Not strong-willed like her beautiful older sister, Maddie, and not difficult like her brother, Joey. She takes up as little space as possible. When Joey returns from rehab, her parents ask her to act as his guardian. She's also expected to keep on top of her grades and hold everything together after the tragic events of that summer. The only person who makes her feel seen is her secret lover, Gage, but no one can find out about that ...
How long can Emmy keep up her careful balancing act before it topples?
PRAISE
"impossibly moving"
- Vanity Fair
"Necessary, important, honest, loving, and true."
- Kirkus Reviews, starred review
"As beautiful as it is raw... an unflinching tale of addiction."
- Amy Beashel, author of The Sky Is Mine
"Raw, honest, and over-flowing with feelings... unlike anything I've ever experienced on the page."
-Erin Hahn, author of You'd Be Mine and More Than Maybe
"In her gripping tale of an addict-adjacent teen and the fragile ecosystem she inhabits, Kathleen Glasgow expands our hearts and invites in a little more humanity."
- Val Emmich, New York Times bestselling author of Dear Evan Hansen: The Novel
"Renders the invisible faces of addiction with rare humanity."
- Amber Smith, New York Times bestselling author of The Way I Used to Be
"Nails what it's like to love someone with an addiction and humanizes the struggle of a teenage drug addict."
- Hayley Krischer, author of Something Happened to Ali Greenleaf
"An evocative, soaring exploration of family, friendship, and the many lives that encompass a small town."
- Laurie Elizabeth Flynn, author of The Girls Are All So Nice Here
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Sixteen-year-old Emory Ward, who cues as white, feels invisible. After she and her older brother Joey are in a car crash that kills another student, and heroin is found in Joey's system, her life fractures. Her friends abandon her for her perceived part in their classmate's death; her relationship with Joey, even after he returns from rehab, isn't the same; and she shoplifts to ease the pain of not being seen. The teens' mother, whose family built the mill that gave their small town its name, expects too much of both recovering Joey and "good" child Emory, but connecting with friends old and new allows Emory to finally begin building self-confidence and meaningfully support her brother. Glasgow (How to Make Friends with the Dark) tackles such difficult topics as classism and bigotry in the educational system, and draws struggles with addiction, especially Joey's, with remarkable compassion. A melodramatic twist in the third act unfortunately undercuts the nuance established by the book's beginning, but Emory and Joey's journeys and sibling relationship are memorable, and the conclusion admirably humanizes a group of people whom society frequently demonizes. Ages 14–up.
