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The Heart and Other Monsters

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Readers

68/100

Critics

75/100

Scholars

N/A

Author:

Rose Andersen

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing

Date:

July 7, 2020

In November 2013, Rose Andersen's 24-year-old sister Sarah died of an overdose in the bathroom of her boyfriend's home. In this memoir, Rose revisits their volatile childhood, the opioid crisis that plagued their small town, and a suspicious coroner's report that suggests Sarah's death might have involved foul play.

What The Reviewers Say

Rebekah Frumkin,
The Washington Post
... will be heart-rending for anyone to read, though I can’t imagine anyone’s heart will be rent in quite the same way addicts’ will.
Beth Mowbray,
The Nerd Daily
Rose’s beautifully painful retracing of these events, of her sister’s life and death, in an attempt to untangle this web and reconcile the loss of a loved one.
LINSEY MAUGHAN,
Vol. 1 Brooklyn
Andersen has done her research on opioids.
Lauren O'Brien,
Shelf Awareness
... poignant and distressing.