The Last to Let Go by Amber Smith
Junior year for Brooke Winters is supposed to be about change. She’s transferring schools, starting fresh, and making plans for college. But all of her dreams are shattered one hot summer afternoon when her mother is arrested for killing Brooke’s abusive father. No one really knows what happened that day, if it was premeditated or self-defense, whether it was right or wrong. And now Brooke and her siblings are on their own.
In a year of firsts—the first year without parents, first love, first heartbreak, and her first taste of freedom—Brooke must confront the shadow of her family’s violence and dysfunction, as she struggles to finds her true place in the world, and learns how to let go.
Trigger & Content Warnings:
- Queermisia
- Domestic abuse & violence
- Alcohol consumption
- Smoking mentioned
- Overdose discussed
- Death of a father
- Murder
- Knife violence & stabbing
- Incarceration (parent)
- Bullying
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