{"id":23376,"date":"2024-03-16T15:22:14","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T19:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=23376"},"modified":"2026-03-22T09:01:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T13:01:43","slug":"damaged-goods-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/23376","title":{"rendered":"Damaged Goods"},"content":{"rendered":"

Damaged Goods<\/em><\/a> (2018) Talia Hibbert<\/a> (Ravenswood)<\/p>\n

\"Damaged<\/a><\/p>\n

The worst thing about Samir\u2019s parents\u2014worse than the cruelty, the manipulation, the toxicity\u2014was the fact that Samir had loved them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You would think, with the number of awful things she\u2019d done in her life, that they\u2019d all blur together. But she remembered every desperate, acidic moment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Those two words were heavy as stone and soft as marshmallows all at once. You good? It was the question they\u2019d agreed, years back, to ask each other regularly. A question they\u2019d agreed to answer honestly, too. Always.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Publisher: Nixon House<\/p>\n

Rating: 8.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Damaged Goods (2018) Talia Hibbert (Ravenswood) The worst thing about Samir\u2019s parents\u2014worse than the cruelty, the manipulation, the toxicity\u2014was the fact that Samir had loved them. You would think, with the number of awful things she\u2019d done in her life, that they\u2019d all blur together. But she remembered every desperate, acidic moment. 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