I just finished The Women by Kristin Hannah, and for some reason it left me reeling. I’m still trying to figure out exactly what the triggers were for me but I cried and cried and cried. I couldn’t sleep, I’ve been so distracted reliving certain moments and feeling the pain all over again. I can physically feel the pain in my body. I do tear up with books now and then but was so surprised at the response this one got out of me. I hope I recover in a week or two haha.
What books have you read that have broken your heart and torn you apart? Was it surprising for you? What are your big emotional triggers in books?
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A Thousand Splendid Suns. Not heatbroken so much as just completely hollowed out, like my heart was ripped out and stomped on. Knowing that this fiction only in the specifics makes me want to curl up and cuddle a puppy for a few days.
All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews
Where The Red Fern Grows
I’m an easy mark for crying, so there have been many over the years. Ann Napolitano’s Hello Beautiful was the most recent one that just destroyed me. I stayed up way too late on Christmas Eve reading it and finished it up on Christmas morning. Families seem to do it to me. When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi was another that left me sobbing so hard I could barely breathe.
I find that when I’m really gutted by a book I usually can’t start another right away. I need at least a day or two to recover, sometimes more.
The Great Alone by Kristen Hannah. I was sobbing during this book
“Unwind is a 2007 dystopian novel by young adult literature author Neal Shusterman.
It takes place in the United States in the near future. After the Second Civil War, which was labeled “The Heartland War”, was fought over abortion, a compromise was reached, allowing parents to sign an order for their children between the ages of 13 and 18 to be “unwound” — taken to “harvest camps” and dissected into their body parts for later use. The reasoning is that, since 99.44% of the body is used, unwinds do not technically die because their individual body parts live on.”
I got the book for my son but ended up reading myself.
Amoung the Hidden was fucked up.
Animal Farm