The Sky is Everywhere

“Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes part of you, step for step, breath for breath.” 

The idea of Sky is Everywhere focuses on not just about grief and regret. It was created to shape and mold the mind of the people who left behind after someone's death. And the mother that they have created and accepted about what is true or false. The reality and the fictional stories that they have created when their mother left them.  Also, the kind of stories these characters have on their own creates a beautiful color to the story. There was a gray area in the beginning, like, "Where exactly is their mother?" or "How did Lennie's sister died?", those are one of the questions that rung on my head when I was reading it.

All throughout the story, Lennie who had a series of confusion with her feelings toward Toby and Joe. What comes on my end is that, how can she able to process all this when she was still grieving for her sister's death? The death of a loved one doesn't mean it marks to an end. In fact, it ignites another conflicts, circumstances and confrontations through all the characters. At first, it was a bit stagger on my end since there quite things that I cannot catch on Lennie. It was the kind of feeling when she falls in love and yet her heart tries to ignore it when she was still on a state of grief. But surprisingly, what stayed with me until the end was that Jandy Nelson folds the reality in a precise way.

The details were all interpreted and all sides of the characters were clearly spoken out. And even though they were all in pain about it, her characters did remain stable on the end. It was the acceptance of the pain they had that makes Sky is Everywhere a remarkable novel. This book definitely deserves all the award it can have.