With Your Friends
Mental IllnessAdded on January 13, 2026
Description
REVIEWS2022 Hollywood Book Festival Honorable Mention"This sensitive, insightful coming-of-age story faces tough issues with richly drawn characters." - BookLife". . . WITH YOUR FRIENDS is a quiet, character-driven story that tackles difficult issues with grace and nuance." - IndieReaderDESCRIPTIONPeter Hansen feels like he’s suffocating. His home is a battleground for his parent’s fights and the lonely world around him in Haverty, Illinois is filled with the problems he could face upon entry into adulthood at the end of his senior year of high school. Everything around him feels like it’s slowly closing in and he doesn’t know where to look for help. And then the divorce comes.When his parents marriage finally falls apart, Peter thinks things will get better. What he begins to realize is that the only thing more suffocating than the fighting is the silence of his mother's grief. He struggles to find peace of mind in a group of friends he meets at a local coffee shop. Through these relationships and his budding romance with his new friend, Ryan, Peter must find the air he needs and the beauty in a world where things frequently fall apart.CW: Mental Health, Self-Harm (not shown), Anxiety, Depression, Divorce
Reader Reviews
I wrote this! And I think it's great!
DNF 35% I wanted to like this book, and it started off just fine, but something is missing and I don’t know what. But my interest slowly faded away and now I can’t make myself continue. Too bad. It’s probably me.
thanks to netgalley for the arc - I manged to finish this one pretty quickly, which was good because I realized about halfway through I wasn't in love with it. It's a good book, but not one that was entirely for me. My biggest issue is that there isn't an actual plot so to speak, it's mostly just characters going through their lives. Which is fine...it just wasn't enough to make me fully invest in anything when the book is basically all character development, no story. I love melodrama, but by t
