Rose’s love of Frida Kahlo fuels her paint brush and her dreams to attend a prestigious art school.
ABOUT THE BOOK: Seventeen-year-old Rose Hemmersbach aspires to break out of small-town Sparta, Wisconsin and achieve her artistic dreams, just like her aunt Colleen. This story is painful and heartbreaking but also beautiful and hopeful-a relevant story for today that everyone should read. The characters are authentic in their dialog and interactions with each other-here the author’s background in psychology is clear. That alone would have made the story a winner for me, but Carlson adds in delicious layers with a budding romance with a new (fellow-artist) student, the cruelty of the fast-paced, small-town gossip mill, and a sweet blanket of Midwest homecoming rituals. Carlson handles this timely topic with an honesty that acknowledges that young adult readers can deal with tough topics and, indeed, need authors to cover them because (unfortunately) they’re dealing with impossibly difficult situations in real life. It’s no secret that this story centers around Rose’s mom’s heroin addiction and the overdose that nearly kills her. Carlson’s writing transported me so completely into the story of 17-year-old Rose that I was heartbroken over the messed up family situation she finds herself stuck in along with all of the extra responsibilities that really shouldn’t be placed on a teenager’s shoulders. Everything’s Not Fine by Sarah Carlson made me cry-in the best way that a book can.
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