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    This is How I Find Her

    By Sara Polsky

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    About this ebook

    Sophie has always lived her life in the shadow of her mother's bipolar disorder: monitoring medication, making sure the rent is paid, rushing home after school instead of spending time with friends, and keeping secrets from everyone.

    But when a suicide attempt lands Sophie's mother in the hospital, Sophie no longer has to watch over her. She moves in with her aunt, uncle, and cousin—a family she’s been estranged from for the past five years. Rolling her suitcase across town to her family's house is easy. What's harder is figuring out how to rebuild her life.

    And as her mother’s release approaches and the old obligations loom, Sophie finds herself torn between her responsibilities toward her mother and her desire to live her own life, Sophie must decide what to do next.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAW Teen
    Release dateSep 1, 2013
    ISBN9780807578780
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    This is How I Find Her
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    Sara Polsky

    Sara Polsky works as a journalist and has published poetry and short fiction in magazines like Strange Horizons and Beyond the Wainscot. She lives in New York City. This is her first book.

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    • 3/5
      After her mother attempts suicide, Sophie moves in with her aunt, uncle and cousin. Having dealt with her mother's bipolar for many years, Sophie seems a bit defeated and downhearted about the situation.I thought it was odd that the 16 year old main character was given detailed information and options about her mother's treatment by the doctors. In reality, a minor would not be given or allowed to have that responsibility. I imagine that a social worker would have been brought in, or that her mother would have been made a ward of the state. Despite this huge criticism, I did enjoy the book. The characters were gritty and realistic. I really felt Sophie's pain and anguish as she tried to decide how to handle the situation. Overall, a good book, but not one I would re-read.
    • 4/5
      [This is How I Find Her] by [Sara Polsky] was a different take on dealing with mental illness for YA. Instead of the teen struggling with her own mental illness she is struggling with her mom who suffers from it. [Polsky] does a good job showing the struggles of those who love someone who has a mental illness in all different ways. I will be adding this book to my classroom library.
    • 5/5
      Character-drive, quiet, though-provoking, and stylistically simple but never simplistic. Sophie is a great character, whose complex mixture of emotions - loyalty, pride, fear, and the guilty relief she feels when able to lay down some of her burden - ring true. The concept that families are made through choice as well as blood, and the realistic but ultimately hopefully ending will speak to all teens, especially those who are themselves caretakers of their parents or who have other adult-sized responsibilities.
    • 5/5
      I cried, not because of the story itself, but because it made me have better understanding for several people I know who are in similar situations. For that better understanding I am grateful and is the reason I give this book five stars. I hope to be a better friend from the things I learned from reading this.