heartbreaking
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“It’s heartbreaking because it’s a road sign that we are going backwards.”
From Salon • Apr. 8, 2026
Instead, the book offers a bitingly funny and occasionally heartbreaking twist on the classic Instagram-versus-reality story, and a space to address our own culpability within the safe confines of fiction.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026
Yet the performance is mostly one of heartbreaking reserve; her occasional voiceover comes in short, spare declarations from Carol’s diary on the latest dreadfulness to afflict the town.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
"It's a really heartbreaking situation for people," said Hengaw's Awyar Shekhi.
From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026
She sang with volume and pitch and a heartbreaking wail that echoed through her relatives’ bones, rattling them in the ground under the school itself.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
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