the ending left me sobbing. i don’t know why it tore me up so much but it did. it’s a very sad story about a sad family that only care about their rich white people problems. although it made me cry, it’s not perfect. i do not like the writing style. it’s very different, almost hard to understand. in the beginning, it talks about how her dad pulled out a hand gun and shot her and she bled all over the lawn. that was not literal at all. at first, i was very confused by this because i was reading as if it was and that was the big accident but as soon as her mother said to get up, i quickly realized it was a metaphor. i continued reading as if the author used those types of metaphors. throughout the book, cadence speaks about how she bleeds and gat helps wrap her wrists up. i took this as some sort of metaphor about how she’s upset and her wounds are her tears and he just wipes them away or some shit but as i read the other reviews, they said she was actually self harming?? very confusing and i would have never picked up on that while reading because the author made sure to put in that big metaphor in the beginning.