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The Broke Hearts

by Matt Mendez

Grief, choices, and lives in Juan’s honor

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AlbakiReads Editorial

Grief, choices, and lives in Juan’s honor

A year after their friend Juan is killed by police gunfire, JD and Danny are trying to make choices about futures that feel inseparable from their loss. JD’s decision to join the Air Force and Danny’s enrollment in community college take them in different directions, while each faces the question of how to honor Juan without letting grief define every decision. Danny’s struggles with college and JD’s imminent deployment bring their paths back into focus. The novel centers friendship, bereavement, educational uncertainty, and the difficult distinction between living for someone and carrying their memory forward.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teens and young adults interested in stories about friendship and grief.
  • Readers interested in young adult fiction about Latino characters and community college.
  • Readers drawn to stories about military enlistment, education, and choices after loss.

Themes

Friendship and bereavementLatino identity and communityEducation and ambitionMilitary enlistmentHonoring a loved one

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Book overview

In this "moving and heartbreaking" (BCCB) follow up to Barely Missing Everything, JD and Danny, still reeling from the gutting death of their best friend by police gunfire, grapple with life-changing decisions and the kind of people they want to be, for Juan.

A year after losing their best friend, JD and Danny are still brokenhearted. JD's impetuous decision to join the Air Force only makes him yearn for "before" more than ever. Danny, who'd rather paint murals than open a book and certainly never thought of himself as college material, makes the equally impulsive choice to do what Juan will never be able to and enrolls in a community college.

Danny's father, The Sarge, is proud of him for the first time ever for living out Sarge's own dream of being a first-generation college student, but Danny can't shake the thought that it should be Juan, not him. And studying hasn't gotten any easier for him despite his new academic goals. When Danny is on the verge of flunking out and JD gets notified of imminent deployment, the two are forced to confront their shared grief that led them to these paths. Can they learn to live lives that are their own in honor of Juan, rather than for him?
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