Everything Here Is Beautiful (Lee, Mira T.)

from debann6354

Mira Lee has given us an intricate depiction of mental illness. In vivid detail Lee describes what it is like to live through the diagnosis and the effect mental illness has on the family. I especially liked Yonah and Manny, Lucia's two relationships. A minor quibble, I would have liked more stor...

from cdyankeefan

Miranda and Lucia are sisters and couldn't be more different- Miranda the older sister responsible for caring for Lucia after their mothers death. Lucia begins to exhibit signs of mental illness which shapes her relationship with Miranda and other significant people in here life. This is a wonder...

from tangledthread

Miranda and Lucia are the daughters of a single Chinese immigrant mother. The book begins as their mother is dying of cancer and Lucy is announcing her impending marriage to Stefan, a Jewish Russian immigrant, almost 20 years her senior with an upper extremity amputation. From this point the stor...

from dawnlovesbooks

Everything about this book is beautiful. It's heart-wrenching, unforgettable and moving. It's about the complex relationships between two sisters. It's about love. It's about mental illness. Lucia suffers from schizophrenia. She goes through long periods of time living a pretty normal life and th...

from mcelhra

Everything Here Is Beautiful is the story of two sisters - Miranda and Lucia, the daughters of a Chinese immigrant single mother. Miranda is the typical oldest child, responsible to a fault. After their mother dies, she becomes almost a single mother to Lucia. When Lucia develops a mental illness...