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A review by glyptodonsneeze
Sunny: Diary 3 by Ann M. Martin
5.0
Sunny's mom dies. That's it. Nothing else happens in this book. If you need to be reminded of what the days are like during the time that someone you love's life is slowly coming to an end, this is the book for you. I read this is in the morning and I was trying not to cry and have cry-face all day, but I was wounded and I leaked many tears. If I hadn't been trying so hard, I would have sobbed.
Sunny tries to go to school but doesn't go to class and no one says anything. Then she stops going to school. Then her dad tells her she can stop going to school. She's at home. Her friends come over. She sits with her mom, sometimes awake, sometimes asleep. There's daytime tv. She's angry, she has no appetite, there are visitors. Her mom is lucid sometimes, then she's screaming, then she's out. The doctor says her mom might have three days left, and Sunny prays for those three days, then realizes that the pain might be too much, that dying soon might be the best thing for her mom, that she's suffering too much. There are memories. Then her mom dies. The last conversations. The whole process. The people who take her away. And the funeral. And the scattering of ashes. That's what it is. That's Sunny: Diary 3.
Sunny tries to go to school but doesn't go to class and no one says anything. Then she stops going to school. Then her dad tells her she can stop going to school. She's at home. Her friends come over. She sits with her mom, sometimes awake, sometimes asleep. There's daytime tv. She's angry, she has no appetite, there are visitors. Her mom is lucid sometimes, then she's screaming, then she's out. The doctor says her mom might have three days left, and Sunny prays for those three days, then realizes that the pain might be too much, that dying soon might be the best thing for her mom, that she's suffering too much. There are memories. Then her mom dies. The last conversations. The whole process. The people who take her away. And the funeral. And the scattering of ashes. That's what it is. That's Sunny: Diary 3.