Review: The Statistical Probability Of Love At Fir.Interview with author Hannah Moskowitz Maat 12:14 PM | Posted in Authors, Interviews | 1 Comment.Review: The Sharp Time by Mary O'Connell.Review: Under The Never Sky by Veronica Rossi.Review: Where It Began by Ann Redisch Stampler.December Wrap-Up: New year's resolutions.It's one lovers of Invincible Summer should check out to help pass the time until Gone, Gone, Gone's April release. Hannah Moskowitz is skilled in bringing to life the most difficult and complicated of relationships and characters and making them relatable.īreak is a powerful and personal contemporary family drama I'd recommend to fans of Courtney Summers' novels. The characters' conflicts and motivations, the dynamics between them, their situations: everything is realistic and gritty.

The bond between Jonah and Jesse especially, both constructive and destructive at the same time, felt so real, and the exploration at their impact on each other's lives felt so deeply personal that remembering them as fictional characters came as a shock.

The dynamics are so realistic and touching. Hannah Moskowitz's style is raw and arresting, adopting a common family setting teeming with stress and worry and love and pulling it off with the believability of someone who's been there. Going back to her debut of two years prior, I was worried that IS set me up for disappointment, but while I could see how Hannah's writing developed between the two, Break was still an highly emotional and enjoyable read. 'The first feeling is pain.the feeling that never comes in regret.'īreak appeared on my radar after I read the wonderful Invincible Summer, Hannah Moskowitz's sophomore novel. It started with a car accident that broke both femurs, and evolved to intentionally taking a few fingers, a wrist, a rib. No, it isn't as pointlessly self-destructive as it sounds. So begins Jonah's mission to break his bones and have them heal stronger. With a brother deathly allergic to pretty much everything, including their newborn brother, and parents constantly at odds, Jonah decides he needs to be stronger in order for the family to be stronger. He and his brothers and his parents aren't components of a family, in that they can't be split apart from the family. Jonah believes that the family is the smallest unit of measurement. When Jonah's self-destructive spiral accelerates and he hits rock bottom, will he find true strength or surrender to his breaking point?

Break by hannah moskowitz