History Is All You Left Me is a deeply sad book, perfectly in tune with human nature and yet never manipulative as it explores love, friendship and grief between four boys. I stayed up late last night to finish this book and, I confess, I had chills down my spine as I came to the final page. People are complicated puzzles, always trying to piece together a complete picture, but sometimes we get it wrong and sometimes we’re left unfinished. If Griffin is ever to rebuild his future, he must first confront his history, every last heartbreaking piece in the puzzle of his life. He's losing himself in his obsessive compulsions and destructive choices, and the secrets he's been keeping are tearing him apart. But no matter how much they open up to each other, Griffin's downward spiral continues. To make things worse, the only person who truly understands his heartache is Jackson. But now, the future he's been imagining for himself has gone far off course. Even though Theo had moved to California for college and started seeing Jackson, Griffin never doubted Theo would come back to him when the time was right. When Griffin's first love and ex-boyfriend, Theo, dies in a drowning accident, his universe implodes. Nicola Yoon, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything, Everythingįrom the New York Times bestselling author of More Happy Than Not comes an explosive examination of grief, mental illness, and the devastating consequences of refusing to let go of the past. (Jan.This book will make you cry, think, and then cry some more.
Griffin has much to puzzle out as he tries to move forward, but he does so with the reassurance that real love exists. The tragedy of Theo’s death is also leavened by the healthy families Griffin has to lean on: the boys come out to their parents, together, at a birthday party for Theo’s younger sister, and their declaration of love is met with celebration.
Though Griffin’s vision is clouded by grief, passion, and guilt, readers will have no trouble understanding how unmoored Griffin has become: Silvera ( More Happy Than Not) excels at capturing the confusion and pain he feels. Griffin processes Theo’s death by recounting their relationship and the aftermath of the drowning in alternating chapters titled “History” and “Today,” telling most of the story in direct address to his lost love.
From Griffin Jennings’s perspective, he loses his first love Theo three times: first when Theo heads to college in California while Griffin finishes senior year at their Manhattan high school then when Theo finds new love with a fellow college student and, finally, when Theo drowns in the Pacific.
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