If Tomorrow Doesn't Come

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Jen St. Jude's end of the world story makes for one hell of a debut novel. It's lush, searching, and ultimately full of hope. I loved it. If Tomorrow Doesn’t Come is a novel that carves a space in your heart and remains there forever. Breathtakingly written, Jen St. Jude masterfully explores queerness, depression, and shame, while beautifully capturing family, friendship, and love, and the intersections that often exist between these things. Hopeful above all else. This book is devastatingly brilliant. Jen St. Jude is hands down one of the most talented new voices in YA, and soon, everyone will know it. If Tomorrow Doesn't Come is a brilliant story of hope, healing, and resilience from a thoughtful and fearless new voice in YA. An electric, urgent miracle of a book that asks what--and who--we dare to live for. Avery's story will shatter your heart and fill it with light again. Keep an eye on this writer: St. Jude is here to stay. A gorgeously written master class in exploring queerness and depression with honesty, gravity, and balance, If Tomorrow Doesn't Come is an absolute life-changer — and life-saver — of a book. It had my heart simultaneously cracking and blooming with hope from its very first lines long past The End. If Tomorrow Doesn’t Come is a beautiful exploration of the endless night of depression and the illuminating joy of what happens when morning comes and the sun rises. This stunning book is one you’ll want tucked away in your backpack at the end of the world. Few storytellers can balance heartbreak and hope as powerfully as Jen St. Jude. If Tomorrow Doesn’t Come is an incredible, poignant debut with a critical message and characters who will stick with you long after you've turned the final page. An achingly tender and poignantly honest look at depression, queerness, and love at the end of the world, If Tomorrow Doesn’t Come will break your heart and put it back together again. Jen St. Jude’s breathtaking prose and thoughtful exploration of emotion firmly cements them as one of the most endearing new voices in YA. This book is a marvel. At once cinematic and intimate, If Tomorrow Doesn’t Come weaves the apocalyptic chaos of a doomed world with the quiet vulnerability of complicated love to create an urgent, action-filled tapestry of humanity, hope, humor, and high stakes. The best kind of thriller: One that reminds you what it means to be alive, and what it means to be together. Avery’s complicated yet fierce relationship with Cass and the fraught energy between Avery and her parents are rendered in clear and emotive detail, yet most notable is St. Jude’s heart-achingly precise interpretation of one teenager’s experience with depression and suicidal ideation. Hope for a bright future is always evident in this sometimes dark, thought-provoking debut. If Tomorrow Doesn't Come is a gorgeously written portrayal of one teenager's decision to continue living and loving through impossible circumstances. Any student who has struggled with intense depression or feelings of isolation while friends and family drift away will identify with Avery. A worthy addition to a very narrow convergence of mental health crises that already exist at the verge of the end of the known world. St. Jude examines the viciousness of depression and the inexplicable way it has of being exacerbated by everything and nothing. . . This story is raw, but unflinching, too, until the bitter end. This courageous tale illuminates a young queer woman’s quest out of self-loathing toward self-acceptance. It boldly asks: When the end is near, how do we live, and whom do we hold most dear? . . . A textured book offering readers hope in the face of impossibility. Expand reviews