Block the mental painwith physical pain,repeat, repeat, repeat… Daya bruises herself to keep from feeling the guilt and sorrow of surviving the car crash that killed her parents. Keeps her distance from everyone at school, from the well-meaning artsy aunt and uncle she lives with now, from the therapist trying to coax out feelings that … Continue reading She stays BRUISED to mask her bone-deep anguish, by Tanya Boteju (YA book review)