We Are All So Good at Smiling

by Amber McBride

Depression, trauma, and a mysterious forest

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Depression, trauma, and a mysterious forest

Amber McBride’s young adult novel-in-verse brings Whimsy and Faerry together through shared experiences of clinical depression and a sense of hidden magic. Their connection deepens when Faerry’s family moves nearby, while the forest at the end of Marsh Creek Lane draws both of them toward what they have feared and avoided. Monsters and fairy-tale elements give the story a fantastical frame for its exploration of trauma, healing, and the past. The verse form and intertwined mysteries place emotional struggles alongside a supernatural landscape.

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Teens and young adults interested in fiction about mental illness and healing from trauma.
Readers who enjoy young adult novels in verse with fairy-tale and supernatural elements.

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Clinical depressionTrauma and healingConnection and shared historyFairy tales and monsters

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Book overview

They Both Die at the End meets The Bell Jar in this haunting, beautiful young adult novel-in-verse about clinical depression and healing from trauma, from National Book Award Finalist Amber McBride.

Whimsy is back in the hospital for treatment of clinical depression. When she meets a boy named Faerry, she recognizes they both have magic in the marrow of their bones. And when Faerry and his family move to the same street, the two start to realize that their lifelines may have twined and untwined many times before.

They are both terrified of the forest at the end of Marsh Creek Lane.

The Forest whispers to Whimsy. The Forest might hold the answers to the part of Faerry he feels is missing. They discover the Forest holds monsters, fairy tales, and pain that they have both been running from for 11 years.

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