We Are All Completely Fine by Daryl Gregory

A group of men and women are drawn together to form a new support group. Their psychotherapist thinks it will do them good to talk to people with shared experiences. What do they have in common?

They’ve all faced monsters, human and not so human, and they survived where others didn’t.

Stan was partially eaten by cannibals. Harrison hunted monsters. Barbara had the insane writings of a serial killer carved on her bones. Martin never takes his sunglasses off, ever. Then there is Greta, she’s more complicated than the rest combined.

It begins very small, this book, with the first meeting where the group meet each other, and we, in turn, meet them. Comments, observations, memories, small things snowball and become bigger and more connected until an ending you don’t see coming hits you like a slap back to awareness. You can easily get lost in these characters and their fictional lives.

I found it charming, each character so perfectly written, so complex in their nature. Charming but also horrifying, because to consider the things they have survived, you must believe in monsters, not just those in plain sight but the ones lurking inside.

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