SuitabookAnnie LeBlanc Is Not Dead Yet
Molly Morris
- Reading
- Consider reading alongside a conversation about grief, consent and repairing friendships. The premise remains mysterious, so allow space for questions rather than expecting every rule or ending detail to be resolved.
- Themes
- Friendship, rupture and repair: Wilson brings back Annie, her former best friend, while trying to address the breakdown involving Ryan, the third member of their old trio. The relationships are treated with emotional realism: Wilson’s desire to reunite the trio is understandable but can also appear obsessive or off-putting.
- Grief and the desire for permanence: Annie returns from the dead for thirty days, and Wilson searches for a loophole that might allow her to remain alive permanently. The story gives grief a hopeful, sometimes light-hearted treatment while still foregrounding the pain and uncertainty of another separation.
- Queerness and romance: Wilson and Ryan are queer, and their strained relationship includes an earlier kiss; romantic relationships develop within the summer’s emotional upheaval. The queer characters and romantic relationships are described as thoughtfully written, tender and believable rather than treated as a problem.
- Worth knowing
- Death and loss are central rather than incidental: Annie returns after dying, and the story follows the emotional consequences of a temporary reunion, unresolved grief and the possibility of another separation.