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happymeday said:
I think the saddest book I've ever read is a bit hard to decide. Certainly these books didn't make me sob my emphatic heart out, but they left with me a very deep impression. One of them is "Cage of Stars" by Jacquelyn Mitchard (A girl's two sisters are killed in front of her by a deranged man, and as everyone around her moves on to forgive him, she is left, stuck in a rut bent on revenge and finding peace for her sisters) and "Drowning Ruth" by Christina Schwarz (a nurse heads home, only to have her sister die, leaving behind a war-broken husband and a young child. As the story progressives, you find the dark secrets that begin to emerge as little Ruthie begins to grow up, and question the world around her). Both of them left me wandering about the book and it's ending for a very long time. While "Cage of Stars" is a very well-paced invigorating read, "Drowning Ruth" is, in my opinion, confusing. It's told from many perspectives, and time shifts from backward to the present, and back again. It isn't until the end that you truly realize the devastating truth behind it all.
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