I wanted to love this book as science and faith and their intersections are where I "live". But this book plunged into the world of addiction so heavily, that I felt like I needed an Al-Anon meeting while reading it. I don't say that lightly because I highly appreciate 12-step recovery groups. I thought this leaned heavily into the coming-of-age issues of how to disengage from mentally ill parents and restrictive churches. Because it was a look-backwards POV, I thought Gifty, being a Stanford student, would be intelligent enough to seek out other places of worship and come to terms with (while not approve of) the cultural issues in churches. To condemn God because of a few people seems.....unwise and unfair. Do we want God to smite every bad action or actor? Wouldn't that include each one of us? This is the inherent tension in Christianity. How do we continue to love? The attempt for Gifty to discover the answers to depression and addiction seems laudable but naive. How many millions of people have hoped to do just that? Maybe working with God and maybe through 12-step groups could move the needle? Nonetheless,I learned a lot about Ghana, the daily pain of immigration, and the bigotry endemic in AL.

You will not think about parfaits in the same way again

I like the bad seed because he is so bad but he wasn’t always that bad but he lost his family so that’s what made him bad but I also like when he decides not to dothat so bad

I think it was really funny and I like it when it got sprayed with the skunk juice and then it had to have a bath with tomato juice and it died him red

This was an interesting read into the life of Beowulf, but lacked on some important features characteristic of many other books I prefer... Such as characterization.

I LOVED this awesome book about surviving in the wild for about 50 day and the boy only had a hatchet to help him.

Good

I like deep breath’s because when Dolly and Jack get upset about their paintings they got really upset and they said mean things, but they did stuff to calm their selves down like taking deep breath counting to 10 taking more bass and eating dinner. That is why I like deep breath’s

i read it twice

It was fun to make origami with it.