# @proseandpucks on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2024-06-30T23:21:18.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Miracle (@miraclelucketti) — https://gondola.cc/miraclelucketti

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do you ever get literally 4% into a book and just KNOW it’s going to be special? because that’s exactly what happened with this book for me. four percent was all it took for me to know that i was going to love it, and boy did i LOVE it.

it is completely wild to me that this is a debut. from the first page, i understood ezra’s need to be the one to fix things with his siblings. the one to take on all of their problems and make it all better for them, while holding onto that stress or responsibility himself. feeling like you’re the one person that keeps the family together and convincing yourself your happy about it? yeah, been there. it was so wild to see this on the page and brought me to tears several times, because i was that sibling for most of my childhood.

i love a messy family dynamic, and boy is the friedman family messy. even their ghosts have drama, and i ate it up. as messy and angry as they all are, they are also so full of love for one another and i just could not help but root for them to get it together. 

i’m also a huge found family truther and this? oh, this found family is everything. ezra’s initial reluctance to let them get close made me stop and have a long look in the mirror, because am i this book’s main character? everything was just so close to home it got me good.

this review is a novel in itself now, but rules for ghosting is a book about dying, living, grieving and finding yourself and your community through it all. i silently wept through probably the last hour of the book and it is easily one of my favorite things i have ever read. honestly might be my top of the year and and it’s only june.

rules for ghosting publishes 08/20/2024. please keep this one on your radar!
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