We Are All So Good at Smiling by Amber McBride audiobook

We Are All So Good at Smiling

By Amber McBride

Macmillan Young Listeners
3.76 Hours Unabridged
Format : Digital Download (In Stock)
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    ISBN: 9781250877413

This audiobook features music and special effects. Listen along and enjoy the fun that is We Are All So Good at Smiling. This program is read by the author. They Both Die at the End meets The Bell Jar in this haunting, beautiful young adult novel-in-verse about clinical depression and healing from trauma, from National Book Award Finalist Amber McBride. Whimsy is back in the hospital for treatment of clinical depression. When she meets a boy named Faerry, she recognizes they both have magic in the marrow of their bones. And when Faerry and his family move to the same street, the two start to realize that their lifelines may have twined and untwined many times before. They are both terrified of the forest at the end of Marsh Creek Lane. The Forest whispers to Whimsy. The Forest might hold the answers to the part of Faerry he feels is missing. They discover the Forest holds monsters, fairy tales, and pain that they have both been running from for 11 years. A Macmillan Audio production from Feiwel & Friends.

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Summary

This audiobook features music and special effects. Listen along and enjoy the fun that is We Are All So Good at Smiling. This program is read by the author. They Both Die at the End meets The Bell Jar in this haunting, beautiful young adult novel-in-verse about clinical depression and healing from trauma, from National Book Award Finalist Amber McBride. Whimsy is back in the hospital for treatment of clinical depression. When she meets a boy named Faerry, she recognizes they both have magic in the marrow of their bones. And when Faerry and his family move to the same street, the two start to realize that their lifelines may have twined and untwined many times before. They are both terrified of the forest at the end of Marsh Creek Lane. The Forest whispers to Whimsy. The Forest might hold the answers to the part of Faerry he feels is missing. They discover the Forest holds monsters, fairy tales, and pain that they have both been running from for 11 years. A Macmillan Audio production from Feiwel & Friends.

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

"The choice of verse to tell this absorbing story is a strong one; readers are drawn along by the intense and vivid imagery, and the depictions of clinical depression, guilt, and grief are visceral. McBride explores the impact of the intersection between Blackness and mental illness ... and the difficulties of two unusual young people finding refuge through friendship from the pressures the world exerts on them. Whimsy’s practice of Hoodoo and the empowerment she receives from the magic inside and around her help her contend with her depression and unravel her grief without negating a brutal, yet ultimately hopeful, reality. ..Important messages uniquely delivered. Kirkus Reviews, starred review

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Author Bio: Amber McBride

Author Bio: Amber McBride

Amber McBride is an author and poet, whose poetry has appeared in various literary magazines. Her debut YA novel in verse, Me (Moth), won the John Steptoe–Coretta Scott King Award and was a finalist for the Morris Award and National Book Award in Children’s Literature. Her novel in verse, We Are All So Good at Smiling, earned four starred reviews. She received her MFA degree in poetry from Emerson College in 2012 and is an assistant professor at the University of Virginia.

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Available Formats : Digital Download
Category: Fiction
Runtime: 3.76
Audience: Young Adult (12–17)
Language: English