Book Review — You’ve Reached Sam by Dustin Thao
Book Review — You’ve Reached Sam by Dustin Thao📕 A sincere, heartfelt examination of love, sorrow and the unfamiliar blessing of goodbye.🫀 I went with You’ve Reached Sam expecting a modern day YA romance. I was not ready to see my chest filled out and then filled in slowly and very tenderly with the most sadest kind of hope. The novel by Dustin Thao traces the life of Julie Clarke the moment her boyfriend Sam abruptly died: it is a beautiful story of how love lives on, how grief can redefine the world, how at times the most unthinkable to us is a phone call made on the other side of the grave: an opportunity to say what we could not say before. Brief overview (so you can get an idea of what you are getting into)📖 Julie and her boyfriend Sam are seventeen years old, and they have some plans: college, moving out, future. then Sam gets killed in a car crash as he is driving to see Julie. A week following his death Julie (lacking sleep, desperate to hear his voice) calls his ...