Sparrow has always had a difficult time making friends. She would always rather have stayed home on the weekends with her mother, an affluent IT Executive at a Brooklyn bank, reading, or watching the birds, than playing with other kids. And that’s made school a lonely experience for her. It’s made LIFE a lonely experience. But when the one teacher who really understood her — Mrs. Wexler, the school librarian, a woman who let her eat her lunch in the library office rather than hide in a bathroom stall, a woman who shared her passion for novels and knew just the ones she’d love… Read more.
Trigger and Content Warnings
- Protagonist with Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD)
- Psychiatric hospitalisation for attempted suicide by fall discussed
- Grief & loss depiction
- Death of a teacher in a car accident discussed
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