Inkflower

Wow this was an amazing read. Lisa is dealing with a lot as she finds out that her father has ALS and only has so long to live. She is just trying to be a normal teenager, but then feels she can't tell her friends what she is going through. Her father wants to tell his story about his time during the Holocaust and that is a whole other thing added to her plate. But as she sees her father's condition worsen and learns more of his story, she finds that she doesn't need to fit in a be normal, she just needs to be herself. She finds that the people around really do care as she opens up about what is happening.
This is a great look at ALS and the Holocaust. The Holocaust needs to be discussed and shown that people lived through it, so that something like that doesn't happen again.
This book gives a really in depth look at ALS and how quickly it can move. I liked that her father wasn't afraid to show emotion and take help, as he knew that he needed it as his condition worsened.

A beautiful story of family, friendship and finding yourself even in the midst of tragedy.

Thank you NetGalley and the Publisher for this ARC.

This is not an easy book. If you read the description, you already know this. However, it is an impactful story about the impact that even our untold stories have on the generations that come after us and the effects they have when we choose to tell them.

Alternating between Lisa's present where she must confront the fact that her dad is dying from ALS and the past where her dad is struggling to come to terms with the effects of the Holocaust, the story is even more impactful when the author reveals that much of it is based on her own life.

Is this a story that the reader is going to walk away from with a lighter heart? No, but it will remind you of what a gift life can be even the messy, horrible, hard parts, and perhaps it will remind you to embrace all of it.