Kimberley > Recent Status Updates

Words can’t express how much I love this book.

Oh Nelly, the enabler of tragedy you are—

Each character more unlikable than the other—

haunting—

“The human brain is finite […] but the mind within the brain is infinite. Its storage capacity is colossal, its imaginative reach beyond our ability to comprehend. I think when a man or woman dies, a whole world falls to ruin—the world that person knew and believed in. [B]illions of people on earth, and each one of those billions with a world inside. The earth their minds have conceived.“ (p. 39)

Going back to Shari‘s recount of her being sexually groomed and sexually abused by a respected member of the LDS church, it is beyond me to understand how there were no consequences for the perpetrator. It seems that Shari, to this day, stands loyal to the very church that enabled and later on excused the abuse.

Having read Ruby Franke‘s journals and having seen the evidence released by the Washington County Attorney‘s Office of Utah, one can only imagine the horrors Shari had to endure reading and seeing the evidence of her siblings‘ abuse. The trauma these kids have to live with their whole lives is unimaginable and atrocious. Their father who let this happen deserves to rot in jail for life, next to Ruby.

Revisiting the chapter in which Shari describes being sexually abused by her older mentor, who was a respected member of the LDS church and abused his position and authority but especially instrumentalized Shari‘s powerlessness in her already weakened mental state to prey on her while she was suffering a panic attack and further descending into the fawning response. This part is incredibly hard to read.

Writing had its flaws, but all in all captivating story with a plot twist that makes your head spin and is quite enjoyable. Not gonna lie—part one was kind of triggering for someone who has worked in that sort of entitled, rich people environment.

Another amazing story by Fredrik Backman. His writing perfectly captures today‘s Society and its quirks in a humorous way that makes you stop and think.

Better than the first one; still not convinced.