SuitabookWe Wait for the Stars
Bridget Hamilton
- Reading
- Read a little at a time if the bereavement feels close to home. Pause to discuss how the verse form conveys emotion, rather than focusing only on plot.
- Themes
- Living with bereavement: Celeste is coping with her father’s death while entering a new phase involving college and unfamiliar experiences. The story appears to place grief alongside connection and activity, rather than presenting bereavement in isolation; its fuller emotional resolution is unclear.
- Friendship and attraction during transition: Katie becomes a new friend, while Reuben is a fellow photographer and the focus of Celeste’s growing attraction. The book’s stance on this remains unclear.
- Worth knowing
- Consider whether a reader would welcome a story involving a parent’s death, memories becoming harder to hold, changing friendships and attraction during a period of major personal transition.