All the Wrong Things by Jade Urban

Jade Urban creates her own unique narrative about relationships, growing up, and drifting apart from family in her narrative All the Wrong Things. From the opening line, “I’ve been planning my funeral,” readers are thrust into the middle of chaotic family drama, and the book doesn’t let up until its stunning turning point. Urban uses a nonlinear structure to add intensity to her fiction and believable dialogue shows dynamic characters' working through crucial moments and demonstrating their inability to articulate the source of their unhappiness. Masterfully interweaving love, loss, betrayal, and loss of innocence, AAll the Wrong Things gets it right.