Sorry For Your Loss by Joanne Levy REVIEW

Sorry For Your Loss

by Joanne Levy

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Synopsis:

Evie Walman is not obsessed with death. She does think about it a lot, though, but only because her family runs a Jewish funeral home. At twelve, Evie already knows she's going to be a funeral director when she grows up. So what if the kids at school call her "corpse girl" and say she smells like death? They're just mean and don't get how important it is to have someone take care of things when your world is falling apart. Evie loves dusting caskets, polishing pews, and vacuuming the chapel--and on funeral days, she dresses up and hands out tissues and offers her condolences to mourners. She doesn't normally help her parents with the grieving families directly, until one day when they ask her to help with Oren, a boy who was in a horrific car accident that killed both his parents. Oren refuses to speak and Evie, who is nursing her own private grief, is determined to find a way to help him deal with his loss.

Review:

Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts and opinions expressed in this review are my own.

Sorry For Your Loss is a very sweet middle grade book that is guaranteed to hit you right where it hurts. It will break your heart with the pain and grief of its characters and then slowly mend it back together with love and friendship. Evie is a sweet child, she has some difficult things going on in both her personal and school life. Oren is suffering a heavy loss and struggling to deal with his grief. When these two not-friends end up spending a lot of time together an unlikely not-friendship starts to emerge and with it healing for them both. The friendship between Evie and Oren is truly sweet and special. 

The storyline was incredibly well thought out. The writing was beautiful. We are given a story about death and grief and get to watch it transform into a story about hope and healing. The pacing of a story is a major thing for me, and I have to say this one is paced perfectly. The author manages to somehow slow everything down for a maximum emotional impact, yet keep the story progressing so nothing is overdrawn. You can feel the emotions of the characters as you progressed through the story. Their grief becomes yours; their healing becomes yours. The emotional impact is high. This book is absolutely incredible. I highly recommend it.