I enjoyed this book a lot! I liked how even though Saira was a doctor, she still was very much a teenager in her emotions and reactions. Also, all the food descriptions had me so so hungry! 😩
The only thing I wanted more of was the romance.

I requested and was granted access to this book in order to conduct an interview with author Sona Charaipotra. You can read said interview below.

Hi, Sona! Thank you so much for joining me on Pop! Goes The Reader today.

1. First, I’d love to learn a little more about you! Did you always know you wanted to be a writer? If not, what did you one day dream of becoming?

From as long as I could remember, I was definitely a reader! My mom says I was reading as young as three, but I don’t actually remember learning to read. I do remember spending endless hours at the library, devouring books. And sharing stories with my sister, who’s about a year-and-half younger than me. We made up stories all the time. The first time I actually remember getting praised for my writing was when I was 12, and had an amazing teacher, Ms. Pinter, who emphasized reading and storytelling. And I scribbled stories when I was in my teens. But I always said I didn’t have a book in me – all those pages, those words, so intimidating! In college, I studied journalism and American studies, pop culture, essentially, and interned at magazines – I ended up working at People magazine for seven years right out of school. But it was a screenwriting class I took in my senior year at Rutgers (with my sister!) that sealed it. I went to NYU to study screenwriting, and did the LA thing for a bit. I think Hollywood is the only industry harder – and slower – than book publishing. After stuff nearly panned out there but didn’t, I decided to adapt a screenplay my sister and I wrote together, and realized fiction is a very different form. I was going to bail on it, but my husband Navdeep, also a writer, told me I just needed to dig deeper. So I applied to the writing for children program at the New School, met Dhonielle there the first day of class, and the rest is history!


2. What books and/or authors do you feel have inspired or influenced your life in a positive way? What books can currently be found on your bedside table?

The first book that made me realize that maybe I could be a writer was Bombay Talkie by Ameena Meer. It was the first book that I read that had an Indian-American girl, all salwar kameez and sneakers, growing up in Boston in a mish-moshed household not unlike mine. Her experiences were so different, but I saw shades of myself for the first tme. And then she came to speak at Rutgers, and I got my book signed, and she was a real life living, breathing brown woman who was an author. I was floored. And inspired. Then, when I worked at People, I got to interview Jhumpa Lahiri when Interpreter of Maladies came out. I knew then that there was room for stories about people like me, like us. It was only a matter of time.

And I’ve always read YA – long before it was called that officially. All the commercial fiction, from middle grade like The Baby-Sitters Club series to the Vampire Diaries and beyond. But Laurie Halse Anderson is my hero. Her books Speak and Wintergirls defined for me what storytelling could truly be – astounding, rich, experimental, cathartic, devastating in its honesty. But I also loved Jandy Nelson’s The Sky Is Everywhere – a heartbreaking but redemptive love story, and Jenny Han’s impossible love triangles.

Right now, the book I recommend to everyone all the time is The Sun Is Also A Star by Nicola Yoon. It’s magic. Two teens of color, falling in love over a single day, and it’s also an homage to New York City.


3. You previously co-wrote the wonderful duology, Tiny Pretty Things and Shiny Broken Pieces, with author Dhonielle Clayton, but Symptoms of a Heartbreak marks your debut as a solo author. How was your experience writing this novel similar or different to your previous projects? Did you learn anything new or interesting about your writing process along the way?

My process is very much my process, whether I’m working with Dhonielle or solo. I need an outline to function. I need to pin down the beginning, middle and end, the stakes, the characters. All the bones have to be there. I get too distracted otherwise. And then I procrastinate. I think about things for a long while before I start writing. I induce panic in myself and others. (Hi D!) I need nudges. I need deadlines. And when there’s absolutely no wiggle room, I dig in. I can write pretty quickly, but I definitely need outside deadlines. D nudged me on this the same way she did before, and I thank god for that. I thought it was was just my terrible personality – and I’m sure to some extent it is – but I was just diagnosed with ADHD. I am now seeing a therapist, using cognitive therapies and tools, and on medication, which is definitely helping. It’s been there all along, but now I have some tools to manage it, and it’s like a miracle.


4. Symptoms of a Heartbreak follows the story of Saira Sehgal, an extremely driven, hard-working and dedicated prodigy who, at only sixteen, has already earned her doctor of medicine degree and is embarking on a competitive internship in the pediatric oncology ward at her local hospital. It’s clear an immense amount of research was done on your part to make sure Saira’s medical expertise and time at the hospital rang true. Can you share one fact or piece of information you uncovered during the research process that you found interesting or surprising?

Oh man, so many things. My parents are both doctors – pediatricians – so I grew up with a very lay understanding of how certain things function. But every part of the medical stuff here was researched and vetted and so much was reworked in the process, thanks to doctor readers who gave me incredible, in depth feedback. I learned so much about how much schooling doctors undertake, how much they differ still in approaches and bedside manner, how much racism there still in in the arena. I also learned that oncology residents don’t do surgery, which oops. I had a really amazing, tense scene that I had to completely retool because of this fact. But it just would not have been accurate. Oh well.


5. Over the course of the novel, Saira faces a lot of skepticism in regard to her medical qualifications and abilities from her co-workers, her patients, and even members of her family. What are some strategies you find are effective in combating doubt, whether it’s self-inflicted or otherwise?

I think it now makes so much sense, given the ADHD, but I was a chronic underachiever – my mom frequently reminded me that I was not quite living up to my potential. Which is not to say that I was not successful. But many South Asian families are full of extreme overachievers and parental expectations can be overwhelming. My parents always wanted me to become a doctor and take over their practice, and I just did not want to do that. It was a source of drama, on occasion, but not nearly as contentious as it may be for someone from other families. I think with immigrant families – South Asian or otherwise – it’s just that parents have come here overcoming many challenges, trying to create a better life for themselves and their children. To see your kid then chase something that might never offer not just success but basic stability is hard. And writing, publishing, and other creative pursuits, as we know, are not built on meritocracies, there’s no set path that guarantees success, even if you give it your all. So I think the bottom line for me is to remind myself of the why. Why am I doing this? It’s because I rarely saw my reflection on the page – and until so recently, that was still true for my own kids, some 30 years later. That’s unacceptable. It’s up to us to share our stories, to create those representations we craved as kids. Stability would be nice, but it’s not the endgame.


6. Saira spends a lot of her free time watching and talking about Bollywood films with her friends and family. Her love of these films is infectious and I definitely want to start watching some immediately! If you could recommend three Bollywood films you think everyone should watch, or three of your personal favourites, which would you choose and why?

Three of my personal faves, which I think offer a good, broad starting point:

Bobbi: One of the first I watched repeatedly as a child, a classic rich boy-poor girl romance, and starring a young Rishi Kapoor and Dimple Kapadia.

Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge: I think this is still the longest running Bollywood film in theaters. And with good reason. Early Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol, but the first glimpses at the realities actual first generation kids.

Dil Dhadakne Do: A sprawling Punjabi family adventure on a cruise ship. There’s so much here that reminds me of my family. Not to mention: the parents’ names are Neelam and Kamal – and those are my parents’ names!


7. One of my favourite aspects of Symptoms of a Heartbreak was Saira’s close relationship with her family, which was warm, loving and vibrant. Their interactions with one another felt very realistic and were also very touching. What inspired this particular aspect of the story?

Saira’s family is definitely a reflection of my family. We’re loud, proud, bhangra-oriented, and we take over wherever we go. I feel like I’ve never quite seen us on the page. My mom said that the family was her favorite part of Symptoms, how familiar they felt. And I stole a lot of names from my actual family, sorry not sorry.


8. Let’s talk about pizza! Pizza Hut plays a big role in the book, and some of your descriptions of the pies eaten by Saira and her loved ones had my mouth watering! What toppings would be on your perfect pizza?

Pizza Hut gets much disrespect. But for a huge family with a mix of vegetarians and definite carnivores, it’s the place to be. We could bring thirty people and still be seated. (And this has happened. Often.) Plus: who doesn’t love pan pizza? My favorite is the classic veggie I used to share with my dad: peppers, onions, mushrooms and jalepenos, splashed heartily with crushed red pepper. I miss him so much and I miss sharing pizza with him, too.


9. If there was one theme or message you would like readers to take away from Symptoms of a Heartbreak, what would it be and why?

Oh god, that’s a tough one. I think there are two big things: even the smartest among us have so much to learn from others. And love might not be able to save you in the end, but it is the best kind of medicine, in any case.


10. If you could give one piece of advice to aspiring authors, what would it be?

Don’t be afraid to be specific in your worldbuilding, and in who your characters are. The details are what make a great story, and as odd as it may sound, there are universalities in those specifics. It’s what makes characters human. Who your characters are, where they come from, what they love, what they hate, all the little things. They amount to so much more than the sum of their parts.


11. Is there anything you wish I had asked you but didn’t?
Nope, this is has been great – and so thorough, thank you Jen! You are awesome, and thank you for everything you do to support books and writers!

This was just an okay read for me. I disliked as many things as I liked and didn't feel strongly enough about the book to really warrant adding an in-depth review to the blog.

I loved this book! It's a cute story about a teenaged doctor. I liked Saira's personality and the love story, and the fact that there is South Asian rep is fabulous.

I was eagerly anticipating this book from the day that I heard about it, and it did not disappoint. Charaipotra is extremely talented and I think this was a fun, mostly light-hearted book with enough emotional depth to satisfy readers.

I had a hard time believing the premise of this book based on the actions taken by the protagonist. I also felt like at some point someone should have sent her to a therapist before she finished med school. She obviously has psychological and emotional ties to her desire to be a doctor, which would be fine if you did not allow those emotions to interfere with your practice. With all of her rule-breaking, I just don't feel like she is a character teens should have any respect for. To suggest that she can be a doctor with all of her emotional baggage and poor decision skills is very misleading about the way the adult world works.

Symptoms of a Heartbreak is so freaking adorable and Sona Charaipotra really went off with the cultural references, and I have no care if white people get them or not, I was smiling the whole time because I felt seen, You all HAVE to read this book

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Unfortunately I could not connect to this book. I liked all the pieces- the idea of a teen doctor, medical jargon, cancer research, sick kids, forbidden romance and teen drama- but it did not feel like it came together the way I was hoping it would. Also, everywhere this book pops up it is listed as a romantic comedy and I strongly disagree with that labeling. There was zero comedy in the story, dealing with the issues of illness and death and forgiveness as well as the angst of not fitting in and the drama of realizing who you are as a person and what you want. And the romance was pretty minor- the love interest is introduced early on, but they don't really end up having any sort of relationship until the last third of the book (the main character is already in a relationship from the beginning, even if it is a fake relationship, but to everyone else it is real). I think this would be better classified as a coming of age/medical drama than anything else, but that is just my opinion.

At least a third of the book focused on food, be it cooking, eating, making videos or just talking about food in general. It seemed a little off topic for the story and completely distracted me from the actual point of the plot. But it did make me super hungry for some delicious Indian cuisine and now I might be mildly obsessed with chai.

Overall I thought there were some great elements to the story, I just could not connect to Saira since she was pretty emotionally disconnected. She was really stubborn even at the detriment of her job/people's lives and then overly confident in her skills but I kept having to tell myself she was only 16 and needed to mature emotionally. She was in an important job but in the mindset of an argumentative teen and I wanted to shake her a little. I found the cultural elements really interesting (even though I had to look up most all of the references in the book) and I would love to read about some more Indian main characters doing their thing. Keep in mind I am sure other people will love this book, it was just not for me.

I swear the blurb for this read that she risked her career to get her crush into the trial study. That's incorrect. I kept thinking about the mix up while reading. Thankfully, I see the current blurb is clearer and not misleading. Hazard of reading review copies early.

-Super cute
-Funny
-Sweet
-Social media manager BFF
-Big sister in college
-Trouble with driving
-She's a beard, which gets complicated when she meets someone she actually likes.
-Typical teen romance in extraordinary situation
-Main couple doesn't get to spend much time together on the page during the story
-Teens are teens, even the Genius
-Relatable and fully of empathy
-Love the push/pull between dreams and growing up too fast and evolving friendships
-Big family with big drama
-All the patients and their family are different and full characters, not just swappable background NPCs.
-Love how the work nemesis was happened and gives space for those that don't cope well.
-Ending is an open satisfying HEAFN.

Recommended for YA contemp fans of To All the Boys I Loved Before and Sandhya Menon

I didn't love this book. The entire storyline was like one giant HIPPA violation, and I found Saira to be a little annoying, and her "friends" to be completely insufferable. The concept was cute, and the love story was also cute, but there was only so many times I could suspend my disbelief about her managing to keep her job.

Thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for an advance copy in exchange for an honest review.

This was a cute book about growing up and how finding the balance between adulthood and childhood can be difficult -- and the romance was super cute and sweet.

I started out reading an ARC of Symptoms of a Heartbreak, but then I switched to reading a hardcover in part because my mom used my ARC to kill a bug and because the book was just so good I wanted a finished copy to keep reading and then put on my shelf.

I was a smart kid in school. I got tested for the gifted program twice and took honors-track classes in school from sixth grade onward, but Saira is beyond smart. Not even the kid in my graduating class who skipped a grade, graduated with a 5.0 GPA, and went to Notre Dame for college can compare to her! It takes someone extraordinary to get through all the levels of education through medical school by the age of 16 and she DID THAT. Though her degree of intelligence was way beyond mine, her alienation from kids her age really rang true to me. I struggled with the same thing in school and seeing other “smart kids” talk online about that alienation too as well as struggles with being “perfect” and mental health problems later on indicates it could be a systemic problem. Her feeling the same way I did made her that much more real to me.

But Saira isn’t just some smart kid. She’s a hyperintelligent Indian girl and she faces challenges because of that, but her life also bleeds her culture. Some of my favorite scenes in the book were when she was around her family and they were making Indian food. Side effects of Symptoms of a Heartbreak include getting really hungry because good LORD there’s a lot of food in it and it all sounds good even to a major picky eater like me! There are plenty of times you’ll laugh and plenty where you’ll cry–and also a few where you’d like to shake Saira for letting Link think she’s a fellow patient in the first place, but she faces the consequences for her deception in a satisfying way.

The setting of Princeton Presbyterian felt just as real, though that doesn’t come from personal experience (thankfully). My mom is an R.N. and worked in various hospitals before she decided to move to clinical research and administration. She’s told me tons of stories about her time as a hospital nurse and Princeton sounded just like her various workplaces. For instance, my mom has worked with many a Dr. Cho type who didn’t have a great bedside manor and whose medical prowess was seeming gained in exchange for their ability to be decent to their co-workers.

What left me unimpressed was the handling of Dr. Davis, the hospital administrator. She isn’t a nice character to anyone, but she’s particularly vicious toward Saira and refuses to call her a doctor. Saira’s supervisor Dr. Arora tells Saira after her first meeting with Dr. Davis that “she’s like that with all of us… Especially the Indian doctors. There’s too many of us or something.” So part of Davis’s bad attitude is outright stated to be racism and yet when Davis gets in trouble with HR toward the end for (among other things) her treatment of Saira, readers learn she’s been hard on everyone since the death of her wife from cancer, which explains some things but leaves the racism unaddressed. It’s a distasteful dangling thread.

Though Chairaipotra’s co-written work with Dhonielle Clayton wasn’t my thing when I tried to read Tiny Pretty Things a few years ago, I’m glad I gave Symptoms of a Heartbreak a try. I would have missed out on a remarkable book if I’d let that previous experience get in the way.

Saira Sehgal is a 16 year old doctor who is completing a residency in the children's hospital where she once had to say goodbye to her childhood best friend. Saira is not only dealing with being a doctor at an incredibly young age but she also has a huge crush on a super cute boy who thinks she's also a patient. I loved seeing Saira navigate growing up and taking on such adult roles in the medical field. This is an incredible book that explores cultural identity, medicine, ethics, and love. Teens with an interest in the medical field will love this behind the scenes look. Readers looking for a romance story line with a lot of heart will find something to swoon over here.

Fans of The Arrival Of Someday, The Fault in Our Stars, and When Dimple Met Rishi will love this book.

4/5 stars

I really enjoyed this novel! Saira was such a REAL teenager, and I think Charaipotra did an excellent job of balancing what it's like to be that precocious, child-genius-prodigy who's also...still 16. And dealing with the hormones, attractions, and general angst of any 16-year-old. I thought that was done really well; as much as occasionally I wanted to shake Saira and yell "you want to be treated like an adult, act like one!" I also knew that was kind of the point. It was brilliantly done.

Another aspect I enjoyed was how the book deals with such hard things, like cancer. I don't want to give spoilers, so I'll just say it made it clear how difficult pediatric oncology, both as a field of study for doctors and as something to live through, can be.

As for characters, I loved them. That's it, I just...I loved them all.

Two things that seemed a little too "easy," so to speak: Dr. Davis, and Lizzie. I don't want to share more due to possible spoilers, but in both cases the conflict and the resolution seemed a little too easy to come by.

Overall, this was a wonderful book. I can't wait to read more by the author!

Symptoms of a Heartbreak by Sona Charaipotra is the story about a girl genius trying to figure her life out. In this Solo debut, Saira Seghal is a 16 year old doctor who is starting at internship in the pediatric oncology ward of the hospital that her mother works at. Seghal has a lot of hurtles in this book. The first one being that she is a girl genius and is a 16 year old doctor. Her life is not normal. She had to grow up very fast which also makes her lacking in areas of her life. It can be hard to be this social media sensational genius and to still be a teenager that has teen emotions.



No matter how hard Saira worked, she was still a teenager and I think that was one of the hardest things for me. When you are doctor, you really shouldn’t mess up but when you are a teenager, you are kind of known for messing up. Saira had to figure all of this out while battling with her best friend, having her first crush, and keeping her boyfriend’s secret. I feel like that is a lot to put on a teenage girl especially one trying to treat children cancer patients.



The biggest thing I was disappointed about with this book is that I really wanted to see more of the hospital and medical conflicts in the book. Instead the story focused a lot on Saira’s friendships and Link, the boy she is crushing on. I wanted to see her be a doctor more than what we got. The feelings with Link were so instant that they were hard to believe at first. Eventually as the story goes on, those feelings are just a constant but I don’t feel like they ever really developed.




I felt like this book covered a lot of the missing out and what it is like to grow up faster than the world intends for you to. Saira really doesn’t understand what it is like to be a teenager and people want her to be an adult but she is still just a kid. Watching the characters try to overcome these complications were quite interesting. I really enjoyed the book and I think it had a log of good attributes. I would definitely recommend this book as long as you can handle reading about kids with cancer.

This was such a wonderful debut novel! I loved the writing style and the author did a wonderful job of developing the characters and setting.

a young doctor deals with love and heartbreak while dealing with adult issues with co workers. I loved seeing her family. I loved that she tried to find some romance too and help kids that have cancer. Slight romance.

Dr. Saira Sehgal, 16, is a girl genius starting her internship at the hospital where her best friend died from leukemia at age 8. Choraipotra weaves humor into the most dire of situations as Saira grows both personally and professionally, with adorable awkwardness. Fun romcom, readalike for fans of Jenny Han and Sandhya Menon.

Symptoms of a Heartbreak is a romantic comedy starring sixteen-year-old Saira—Girl Genius and the youngest doctor in history as she navigates first love, family, friendships, and her first internship.
Two worlds meet—oncology in medicine and working as an intern in a hospital as well as teenage life—in this novel, and Charaipotra melds these together into a unique and individual novel.
I liked how Charaipotra really incorporated a lot of different elements of Saira’s life into this novel.
This was honestly the highlight because I found Saira’s story to be really well rounded. It wasn’t just romance or just working as a doctor or just struggling with friendship, but it was all three and so much more.
She’s juggling a lot and I loved reading this. I know it’s advertised as a romantic comedy, but in truth, there’s a lot more to it than just that, which I loved.
I especially found that the contrast of going to an internship as a real doctor and Saira still struggling to learn to drive was a really great dynamic and it kind of revealed how she was struggling with still growing up while doing all these mature themes. I love how it really gave off this vibe that “yes, teenagers are mature but they also struggle with all their responsibilities and growing up at the same time.”
It was a really unique dynamic that I haven’t really seen explored before, and I feel like Charaipotra did a good job of using a more extreme example—being a Girl Genius—with the teenage responsibilities to show the parallels between this and teens’ normal lives.
I’m honestly kind of undecided on the relationship.
This is where I’m a little conflicted, because to get right to it: Saira has a relationship with a patient at her hospital.
It’s not necessarily her patient (kind of) and they are the same age, but I still felt like this dynamic could have used more . . . clarification? Time away from each other? I feel like it didn’t dissuade the idea that doctor x patient relationships are bad, and although Saira went through a lot of loopholes, it wasn’t my favorite part of this novel.
I guess I just wanted Charaipotra to really emphasize how doctor and patient relationships, even with someone who isn’t technically your patient, is a tricky dynamic that frequently has power imbalances, and should be something carefully considered.
So yeah, I’m a bit undecided but I did think there were places this could have been improved a bit.
Overall it’s a fun book!
The Girl Genius part required some imaginative thinking on the side of the reader, but if you’re okay with this and want something cute and lighthearted, I’d definitely recommend you take a moment and check this out!
It’s got a cute story and a really good sort of slice into juggling teen life. I love how it used the doctor internship as a more extreme version of teenage responsibilities, and overall I had a positive reading experience!

Actual Rating 4.5

Symptoms of a Heartbreak by Sona Charaipotra is a charming and beautifully touching story. It’s engrossing and bittersweet, and as much as it hurt my heart, I could not stop reading. There are so many things to love about this wonderful book and by the end, I can honestly say that this is one of my favorite reads this year.

I really enjoyed going on this amazing emotional journey. I loved the gorgeous writing, the heartfelt story, the awesome characters, the relatable relationships, and the aching, but utterly wonderful FEELS. There are plenty of lighthearted, exciting, and sweet moments. Some parts are even funny and had me laughing. But, there are also some very real, emotionally painful, and heartbreaking scenes that affected me. My heart tore into pieces and it literally felt like I was there with Saira experiencing what she feels and witnessing every sad moments with her. So, I cried… quite a lot actually and definitely had swollen puffy eyes by the time I finished reading. So, if you're going to read this book and I think you really should, I suggest you grab a box of tissues and be prepared.

As a prodigy, Saira is such a fascinating teenager and I enjoyed her character development. I really admired her tenacity, enthusiasm, dedication, and compassion. She’s a bit impulsive and maybe even overly passionate about what she does, but I could see that she truly wants to help and do what’s best for her patients. And that’s what I really love about her. Her intentions come from her heart and she fights for what she believes is right. I can’t even imagine how it’ll be like to be 16 years old and already dealing with the mental, physical, and emotional stress of being a doctor. I think Saira handles herself quite reasonably and yes she does make mistakes, but she also learns from them and tries to be a better version of herself.

I adored Link from the very beginning and just wanted to protect him from all the pain and hurt he’s going through. He’s just so sweet, funny, honest, kind and loving that it’s impossible not to fall for him. Link definitely stole a piece of my heart and I rooted for him the entire time. And his relationship with Saira – adorably sweet and swoony. But, more on that later.

Saira and Vish’s friendship is so cute and endearing. Their relationship, while platonic, is still kind of swoony and I enjoyed all their scenes together. I loved that they’re supportive and very loyal to each other. They are so great and fun together… even if it’s just being best friends. While I'm in love with that particular friendship, I don't feel quite the same about Saira and her other best friend Lizze. To be honest, I’m not really big fan of Lizzie and some of her actions. But, I think her friendship with Saira is realistic and relatable in some ways. I also think that that deep down Lizzie loves Saira and will always be there for her.

Saira’s family is amazing and supportive! I really liked the sweet sisterly bond between Saira and Taara. They’re opposites and want different things in life, but at the end of the day, they want each other to be happy. I also really liked how both her parents are very involved and always there for her. The extended family with all the aunties and uncles and cousins are all pretty great too and I loved how they come together to show their support. And her grandmother, Dadi, she's so feisty, so loving, so funny, and such a remarkable woman. I loved Dadi and her cooking definitely made me crave Indian food.

I enjoyed the romance and the swoony chemistry between Saira and Link, but, if I’m being completely honest, I feel like this is one of those rare times that the book didn’t really need a love story. I just personally felt emotionally invested with Saira’s bond with her patients and her dedication on going above and beyond to help and save people. So, even without the romance part, I believe that Saira will still do everything for Link, and I would still really enjoy the story. That being said, I did love Saira and Link together, swooned over their cutesy and flirty moments, and hoped that they would both get their happily ever after.

Heartwarming and poignant, Symptoms of a Heartbreak by Sona Charaipotra is a delightfully entertaining and emotional story about family, friendship, sacrifice, love and following your dreams. It’s terribly heartbreaking, sometimes funny and uplifting, and amazingly real in every way. This is an absolutely lovely book filled with plenty of wonderful emotions and I can’t recommend it enough.

I recevied an advance reader copy of this book from the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for a fair and honest review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.