This book, much like its protagonist Helen Moran, doesn’t really know what it wants to be. And that’s ok most of the time because a suicide implies a mystery in a way not every other death does. And so a book about a suicide can be a mystery, and because it’s about grief, it can be a wandering, wayward affair with no real issue. I am teaching Hamlet, and today we talked about the “To Be or Not To Be” speech and the students grappled with […]