So many people told me this book is amazing and would make you feel all the feels and they were right. So I don't know why it took me nearly a month to read. In retrospect, I think it is because it is so very, very sad.
There is a young girl, Louisa, who has run away from foster care to see a painting that has inspired her to be an artist and has given her comfort throughout her shitty, shitty life. There is Ted, the best friend of a world renowned artist who dies in like the third chapter, and then there are Ted's friends who are a collection of wonderful kids, encased in amber in the painting, who support each other when no one else does.
The story slips around in time as Louisa and Tim make their way back from the art show where the artist expired, with his ashes and the painting that made him famous. Their stories are bleak and funny, but wind out slowly.
I think this book made me so sad reading it that I was unprepared for the ending which was beautiful and well deserved. I think if I had powered through and read it in a couple days, I would have loved it more. As it was, it was still a moving and funny read. I think this one is on my because I just wouldn't devote my reading time to it. But I throughly understand why everyone loves it so much.
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