Found! All-time awesomely depressing YA novel?

[rachelmanija]

Someone helpfully suggested Hannah Moskowitz's Break, which Publishers Weekly describes as follows

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[kateelliott]

[buymeaclue]

This. Spectacularly unmemorable.

[rachelmanija]

You read it? And it wasn't awesomely bad?

[buymeaclue]

Alas, no. I remember being annoyed, but not with enough vivid detail for me to think the reasons were all that interesting.

[thecityofdis]

Agree with the above comment, but I love that you changed your journal name to "Dangerous Jam". I sort of adore you.

[tool_of_satan]

rush to the beach to cast bread upon the waters

Literally?

and all the time have a career-related Sekrit Thing of Probable Unhappiness looming over my head like a large, heavy, depressing, issue-driven YA novel

That sounds awful, whatever it is. I hope it works out.

[lnhammer]

Literal, I assume.

---L.

[tool_of_satan]

I get 5 Bad Jew points for that one.

[eredien]

His 16-year-old brother, Jesse, has deadly food allergies and their parents aren't vigilant about keeping the house safe, so that job has fallen to Jonah, who is weighed down by the responsibility.

So, is he breaking bones to call attention to the unsafe way the house is kept? Or is he breaking bones because he thinks he will be better able to be vigilant against stray peanuts from a hospital bed during skull fracture recovery?

I don't know about you folks, but if you are in a situation where your parents are neglectful or abusive and you feel like you have to take care of your younger sibling in your parents' stead, "deliberately breaking bones" would not be high up on my priority list of things to do, because it, well, impedes your ability to take care of your younger sibling in the parents' stead.