Luckiest Girl Alive

This book confirms it: Your high school years, for most of us, are not the best years of your life. For Ani, these years were soul-crushing, and, worse, were the poison that continued to shape the decisions of her twenties long after high school was over.

Can you hate the events of a story and yet still respect the book? Should you choose to read a book in which the characters, over and over, act in ways that perpetuate the cruelty others have shown to them? I say yes to both questions, because the story feels deeply true.