TY  - BOOK
AU  - McBride,Amber
TI  - We are all so good at smiling
SN  - 9781250780386
PY  - 2023///
CY  - New York
PB  - Feiwel and Friends
KW  - Mental health
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Magic
KW  - Friendship
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Depression, Mental
KW  - Grief
KW  - Psychic trauma
KW  - Novels in verse
KW  - Young adult fiction
KW  - lcgft
N1  - This  book deals with topics that might be triggering to some-- including clinical depression, self-harm, and suicide.--Adapted from page following title page verso; Narrator (interlude) --; Part one; The wilting; Call me magic : call me (Whimsy) --; Prologue; Hospital : the whimsy girl; Outside my hospital window; Car (silver) like a broadsword; Shadow-wings; Things I know about fae; Morning (bathroom) ritual; Mom & Dad visit; Reasons it's easier for Mom & Dad; Break-fast; The fae (Faerry); Group therapy; Group therapy : tell us a secret; My answer : cemetery of leaves; Everyone (in therapy) is silent after my soliloquy; Last week in the hospital --; Chapter 1; Whimsy comes home; Back home on Marsh Creek Lane; My old notebook stuffed with fairy tales; The (haunting) forest; Outside my house on Marsh Creek Lane : October 28; Faerry (still annoying) : on Marsh Creek Lane; What (I think) Faerry does next; Marsh Creek Lane (home) --; Chapter 2; Fairy tales : Faerry tales; What's wrong with a monster? : Whimsy's fairy tale essay/poem; I like my poem; Doorbell rings : Faerry on my stoop again; Faerry reads my poem; Faerry's fairy tale essay/poem; Good night, Faerry; Locket; Dinnertime chat; Sleep, nightmare, wake, repeat --; Chapter 3; Stone Ridge High School; Morning (October 29); Morning (October 29) outside my house; High school; Before AP English class (teacher chat); Things I hear my classmates say; Things I hear Valda (the bully) say; Inferno by Dante; (Faerry) in my AP English class; Teacher questions for new kid?; Questions on the reading?; Circles of Hell; Faerry gathers his things too --; Chapter 4; Runaway; We walk; Car ride; We keep driving; Home; Cole is missing? --; Chapter 5; The forest with the garden; Consequences at dinner; After 10 p.m. there is a knock; Things I did not tell the officer; October 30; October 30 (midday); October 30 (nighttime); October 31; Evening: October 31 (of my 18th year) --; Chapter 6; What I remember; Haunting forest; Finding Cole; This is what I remember; The candy house; Inside the candy house; The clearing --; Chapter 7; Pinky promise; The edge; In haunting forest again; Whimsy in sorrow's garden; The house sorrow built; Meeting sorrow again; The only way; Abandon all hope : in the garden sorrow built; Enter here; Hope sinks. --; Part two; The tears; Chapter 8; Baba Yaga's house; (My sorrow garden); (When it rains ice); (Sorrow & memories); (Grandma's twin house in the garden); (Meeting Baba Yaga); (Outside Baba Yaga's house) --; Chapter 9; Escaping sorrow (again); (Back at the start); (I deserve the garden); (Hooting & breaking); (Through the fire again); (Faerry grabs my hand) --; Chapter 10; Anansi the spider's den; (The webs of Anansi); (Anansi cried); (Faerry & I discuss); (The answer) --; Chapter 11; Mama Wata; (Catching magic); (Walking memories); (Fae wings); (What I see); (Back on the yellow brick road); (Mama Wata & the ocean in a globe); (Under the water of words, I hear them [the bullies] say); (Whimsy the mermaid) --; Chapter 12; Don't eat the apple; (Apples of the sky); (Bruises); (Riddle); (Names of giant apples) --; Chapter 13; Adze & the blood moon; (Amorphophallus titanum : corpse flower); (Never trust a firefly); (Hospital room); Clinical (major) depression; (Forgiveness); (Faerry's story); (Forgiveness again) --; Chapter 14; Voicelessness & the siren Ursula; (We stay cocooned); (Ursula : voice-taker); (Thanatosis); (Panic attacks feel like...) --; Chapter 15; The griot with stories; (A griot); (Story one : what the children saw); (Falling again); (Story two : what the parents saw); (Story three : what actually happened); (Whimsy & Faerry scream) --; Chapter 16; Faerry (tale) & Whimsy (Cole); (Bigger than bravery); (Tale & Cole); (We've been watching you); (Truth). --; Part three; The rebirth; Chapter 17; Fairy tales in the secret garden; (Candy house : final time); (Explosion); (Fairy tales celebrate in the garden sorrow built); (To home we go) --; Epilogue; Happy endings : Whimsy & Faerry; (Whimsy & Faerry) --; Narrator (interlude) --; Author's note --; Glossary of fairy tales, stories & folklore --; Fairy tales in this story --; Whimsy & Faerry's playlist --; Acknowledgments; Ages 13 and up; Feiwel and Friends; Grades 10-12; Feiwel and Friends
N2  - When hospitalized for her clinical depression, Whimsy connects with a boy named Faerry, who also suffers from the traumatic loss of a sibling, and together they work to unearth buried memories and battle the fantastical physical embodiment of their depression
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