I’m not completely familiar with Kathleen Glasgow’s works, but this blew me away. I will definitely be getting my hands on more of Glasgow’s works in the near future!

This book follows main character Emory. She's like any normal teenager until one night flips that all around. This book focuses heavy on Emory’s brother and his problems with drugs. It kinda felt a little rushed and flopped around a lot. It felt like different stories all in one book with kinda a rushed ending. It was still a good book to read

My students already love Kathleen Glasgow's books so when a new one comes out it's a hot commodity. This books doesn't disappoint. I value this one especially because I think it does a great job showing how a family member's substance abuse can harm the whole family. Many of our students are familiar with this issue and can empathize.

A timely tale about the opioid crisis that broke my heart. Great characters, well developed storyline. I loved watching the personal growth of some of the characters.

Such an emotional story. It’s not often that feel such a vast array of emotions while reading a story. This book was sort of cleansing. The writer is capable of conveying such heartbreak and I truly felt for these characters.

A story of a family coming to terms, in each their own way, with a son’s addiction, told from the POV of Emory, the younger sister dealing with her own “invisibility”, trying to be the perfect daughter to make up for the brother’s troubles, while also feeling responsible for tasking care of him. It shows the power of love and what someone will do to save the one who is drowning in their addiction. It also touched on the power of social media and how one small thing can blow up. This was a very powerful story, one that is reflective of what is happening in today’s society. The secondary characters were wonderfully written, showing how friends/teachers can a help even when others may not want their help. TW: drug abuse, sexting, trauma

This story hit me hard. I was expecting pain and deep emotions when reading Kathleen Glasgow, but this hit a new level that I wasn't even expecting. The intricate difficulties that weave their way into human life and relationships really tore me apart. It was wonderful.

A story that deals with the real life American opioid crisis. This is a great book with a cast of characters who are all struggling but find their own strengths along the way.

For her whole life Emory's family has been well-known in the town of Mill Haven. Her great great grandfather founded the mill that employed many of the town's families for generations. But the mill has been abandoned for some time, and people have very different opinions about what should become of the space. Emory also is the little sister of Joey who overdosed and passed out while his best friend Leonard caused a life altering car accident, one that devastated their small town and Emory's family. Now Emory is known as someone who was in the car when Candy died. Joey is on his way back from rehab, and their older sister Maddie is away at college. With workaholic parents who aren't always around, Emory is tasked with keeping an eye on Joey who has been given some pretty serious restrictions to keep him "on the right path." Always feeling invisible in the shadow of her perfect sister and self-destructive brother, Emory has been a good girl, a rule follower. But Emory needs someone to see her. Next door neighbor Gage, who Emory has had a crush on, shows her attention, though secretly, and it feels good for someone finally to notice her even if not out in the open. Despite some questionable choices, Emory is managing and keeping an eye on Joey. Until she isn't. Secrets are brought to light, Joey disappears, and Emory loses herself. Will she pick up the pieces and figure out who she wants to be before it's too late?

THOUGHTS: Readers will root for Emory and Joey while cringing at some obvious warning signs. Glasgow writes a compelling, character driven novel that shines light on addiction's impact on family, friends, and community. Teens will appreciate the authentic portrayal of serious issues.

You'd Be Home Now is a very relevant and timely book, since it partakes on the teenage life. It was intense and such a personal story from Emory. Each of the characters were simply related to some current issues in real life. Most especially, Emory, the character representation were very deep and relatively relatable at some point.

You'd Be Home now is highly powerful. There are trigger warnings of this book. So, please do check them before starting this one. And because of some scenes and descriptions in the book is too real and I was perplexed with the idea of it.

#YoudBeHomeNow #NetGalley.

Such a personal and intense story of Emory, the youngest sister of a perfect-seeming sister and a brother with substance use disorder. Emory is in constant struggle of being the invisible good daughter and sister while trying to navigate her feelings and actions. With the death of a classmate involving Emory's brother, additional difficult life layers pile up.

Emory is a deeply written and very relatable character. The heartbreaks of teenage-hood are ever so complex in certain stories and Emory's story is one of the impost impactful I've read in some time.

I struggled with this book. It was too real. It took months for me to finish it. I wasn't ready for it when I first picked it up but I finally was this week and let me tell you, when you're ready, you won't be able to put it down.

It's a powerful book, with strong characters who make some terrible decisions. It will break your heart. But it will make you think, too. It's the kind of book that should be read in school. It won't be because of the subject matter but it should be. Maybe it would be the wake up call someone needs or the reality someone needs to not pick up drugs.

This is definitely a must read, despite it being a hard read.

This started slow but ultimately it built to a story that I think a lot of teens can relate to. The effects of pressure - peer, parental, and school is such a huge burden for today's teens. Good read.

If there were ever a novel that shows the heart break of what it is like to be a child in a family where you don’t feel seen, You’d Be Home Now by Kathleen Glasgow is it.

Emory is, on her transcripts, perfect, a great student. At home, she’s the good one, the one most likely to not cause trouble. She lives, however, in the shadow of her beautiful, talented older sister, Maddie, and her artsy talented but stoner brother, Joey. Then the night comes when Emory and Joey go to a party; the drive home ends in the death of an innocent girl who needed a ride home, Emory with a shattered leg in incredible pain, and Joey in rehab after od’ing. The novel begins on that night with Emory trying to console the dying girl in the backseat next to Joey who’s inert. Emory blacks out only to wake in the hospital with her sister Maddie by her side.

There are so many emotional points in You’d Be Home Now that you could almost be a dishrag by the time you reached The End, but Glasgow handles it well. We move from Emory’s mother sparingly providing Emory with pain pills despite the immensity of Emory’s pain because her mother thinks she’ll turn into an addict like her brother to Emory’s immense infatuation for her next door neighbor, Gage, who’s a popular athlete and hides his make-out sessions with Emory because she’s not all that and her humiliation when he publicly demonstrates that she’s not all that. With each of these bits, Glasgow makes us feel what it’s like to be Emory. And then Emory’s own conflict when she becomes friends and maybe more with a boy who was part of Joey’s stoner crowd.

It’s a wild naked ride in ice cold weather but the reader feels all the feels, good and bad. Glasgow doesn’t hesitate to make her reader feel all the things–and I don’t mean that lightly in the current vernacular–we really do run a gamut with the reader always hoping that Emory will have her own “Rocky” moment.

An amazing book by a talented writer.

I received an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This book gave me some serious emotions. It was written beautifully in the way that it dragged emotions to the surface and had you on a roller coaster with them as you lived through the characters lives.

I loved every moment of it. It is actually one that managed to capture what it is really like when struggling with this.

I love all of her books! I read this a while ago and finished it in about a day. I got very invested with the story and the characters!!

Let it be known that I am silently weeping in bed next to my sleeping husband at 2:47am upon finishing this book.

This was a heavy portrayal of the opioid epidemic and how it affects a family - but more specifically the younger sister who feels invisible as she tries to keep it all together while her older brother is attempting to get sober.
All of Kathleen’s books have emotionally destroyed me so this was no different. I highly recommend knowing what you’re going into before you read it. If you have any family members or someone close to you with an addiction, this will be a difficult and triggering book.

I truly felt everything Emory was going through and felt transported back in time to high school. Everything felt authentic to the experience in a way that physically hurt. Kathleen does such an excellent job of pulling you into the mindset of someone going through something so dark. The ways that Emory acted out and her reason for doing so get justified and her love and fear for her brother came through in everything she did. Throughout the whole story my heart was broken repeatedly by her parents, her classmates, and Joey.

If this is the kind of story you can handle, I would highly recommend.

I am still crying as I write this. What a great book about addiction and how it impacts everyone around the person struggling with addiction. Emory does some classic enabler moves at which I was screaming at her. But they were important to telling the story. I am just sorry it took me this long to finally read it.

I was immediately sucked into this book. Glasgow somehow manages to write with both tenderness and raw honesty. I felt with and for Emory as she navigated how to deal with her brother's addiction and the way the rest of her family handled it. But I also felt for her parents in their struggle to help Joey and be there for him. The opioid crisis is a huge issue in this country - not only for those who find themselves addicted but also the family and friends and loved ones that are left in its wake with the uncertainty of how to help. One thing that I thought was particularly important is that the addiction is the only villain in this book. Glasgow writes characters who are all doing their best despite their missteps and failures - characters who make good and bad decisions rather than characters who are(n't) good. I loved this book. Emory, Joey, and their family are still with me even after finishing the book months ago, and I'm still learning from them.

There is a lot of drama to follow. Emory’s parents are absolutely maddening, especially her mom. They are rich beyond my comprehension, having a house that has three fireplaces, but only one of them works. Emory does not realize her privilege, which I guess is par for the course. When you’re rich, you don’t know it, even when you live in what seems to be a dying town, full of drugs and addicts. There wasn’t much mention of Emory facing her privilege.

The ending was open, if a bit hopeful. Emory was definitely changed by her experiences and it sounds like her parents were, too. She ends the story, knowing just how addiction runs her life, but she is empowered by the actions of those around her and her new support system. She knows just how powerless she is against addiction and that being there for someone doesn’t always mean hiding their addiction or covering for them.