The onslaught of grief and regret is so intimate that at times the novel feels claustrophobic, as if there is no escape. Overall, I thought it was fine, even really good at times, but because of the writing, I just really couldn't get into it. Tiger Tolliver is so vulnerable and real, you'll want to turn your porch light on and have the spare room ready for her. We have 11 read-alikes for How to Make Friends with the Dark, but non-members are limited to two results.

A rare and powerful novel…dives deep into the heart of grief and healing with honesty, empathy, and grace. i am fortunate enough to have only went through that twice with the passing of my grandparents, but i can’t and don’t want to imagine how much it must hurt to lose someone from your immediate family. k.a Tiger’s tragic journey after her loosing her mother is so realistic so sad but also so genuine, poignant and easy to connect. A rare and powerful novel, How to Make Friends with the Dark dives deep into the heart of grief and healing with honesty, empathy, and grace. this entire book is about tiger’s grief, so it’s not like you ever really get a break from it, so please keep that in mind if you decide you’d like to read this book!The various odd nicknames were jarring, as I've literally never met a single person in my entire life who honestly went by Cake or Crash or something like that. But for my money on a book on grief, I’d go with Mick Harte Was Here (a middle grade but still really good), or Stealing Kevin’s Heart. the ending was well rounded and all, but the 100 or so pages before the resolution were really dull and could’ve been cut so much shorter to not bore the reader to death. And for a book that says grief takes a lifetime, I don’t see why it thinks it must also FEEL like a lifetime to read about.

Tiger's mother may be overprotective, but it has always been Tiger and her mother against the world.Girl in pieces" war keine einfache Lektüre für mich, dementsprechend vorsichtig bin ich an " How to make friends with the dark" herangegangen, was sich für mich aber vergleichsweise leichter lesen ließ, da ich mit Tod und Trauer noch nicht so oft in Berührung gekommen bin. It's written mostly from the author's personal experience and I have so much respect and adoration for the author. She cooked all types of food every day for over two decades of my life, feeding me, feeding the entire family and every person who ever came into our house. Kathleen Glasgow's novel How to Make Friends with the Dark beautifully explores the complexity, the isolation, the raw pain you feel when someone you love dies.