' “Do better!” she said. “Try acting like a decent human being. It's not that hard.” '

With all the misery in the world we're currently dealing with – the whole of the Middle East (as if bombing and starving people in Palestine isn't bad enough), Congo, Somalia, Sudan, Ukraine, you name it... people being ill with ME and LC, misogyny, gun violence, on and on it goes... indeed, I needed a book like this!
This review should be about this book, but I feel like proverbially pounding my fist on the table. Just like Nana-Jo did. Because the lack of people trying to deal with all the mentioned subjects is so painful, it makes me cry very, very often. Oh, the anger of the peri-menopausal woman, but hey the motto suggests 'be the change.'

So the story is of the very kind Denny Voss who hardly raises his voice, not even when being treated unkind to put it mildly. He who hugs and talks to a friend he doesn't want to be scared because he thinks there's nothing worse than being scared. Denny, who goes on a wild goose chase and made me laugh all the way through the book. You just wait until you read about him mentioning Pinky, the mouse.
A book that was made up of people with real-life characters, some of them I would describe as 'quite a piece of work.' This made me appreciate the book all the more for it not being sugarcoated.

To emphasize I want to end this review on a well-deserved positive note (Denny would yell 'Hallelujah'): I hope the book will be published in Dutch, the translator is going to have a field day with Angus' shirts :)