![]() ![]() It shows just how insidious grief can be, how it's not just this overwhelming feeling that takes over all the time, how it can also be found in small ways, in day to day mundane things, in little reminders that feel like a punch in the gut. The exploration of grief is genuinely some of my favorite I've ever read, it's so simple yet complex. What I loved most about their friendship is how genuine and real it felt, how there was so much love in it, but also conflict like between any 12 year olds navigating the dynamics of a new friendship while also dealing with their own grief and heartache, but being there for each other above all. ![]() Don't get me wrong, I knew this book deals with grief, it's right there in the synopsis, but what I didn't expect is how beautiful the depiction was and how soft and tender and heart achingly sweet this book would be.Ĭlues to the Universe is a story set in the 1980s (which I didn't know, for some reason I thought it was a contemporary) that showcases a beautiful friendship between Ro, a biracial Chinese-American girl whose only dream is to be a rocket scientist and Benji, a white boy whose head is full of dreams and fictional stories he renders in drawings. This book tore my heart to pieces and put it back together and I did NOT see that coming. ![]() Content warnings: grief, death of a parent, parental abandonment, bullying. ![]()
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