I once read a short story I wish I could find again from the perspective of a 7 year old as he describes his mother methodically getting ready for a “trip” while he tries to get answers from her. Eventually, after absent-minded dismissal of his questions, she locks him in their house and never returns. The story had a surreal tone, but was apparently about how a child perceives his mother’s early on-set dementia and subsequent death.
I would like a book that’s similarly about serious topics/events written from a child’s perspective. Child referring to someone under 12 or so, but really any narrator who perceives the world with innocence, states things bluntly and maybe misunderstands the world in their own vision.
by Hornythrowaway0x0
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To kill a mockingbird
Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O’Neill
Blood Sugar by Daniel Kraus
St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell
* Wild Spaces by S.L. Coney
* Panther by Brecht Evans (definitely check out content warnings first if you have any sort of content limits)
* Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (not a child, but a mentally disabled man whose perspective is often what you described)
Room by Emma Donoghue
Room, by Emma Donoghue
fox 8 by George Saunders (short story)
Room by Emma donoghue (I think it’s mainly in the perspective of the child but it’s been a long time since I read it)
The God of Small Things
Bridge to terabithia
Foster by Claire Keegan
Hula by Lisa Shea
the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime by mark haddon
The Instructions by Adam Levin. 10 year old believes he possibly is the next messiah