Name me a book that ripped your heart out, then, when you thought it got better, ripped it out again and started stomping on it

I felt that way about Youth by J.M. Coetzee. You think about just ending it all after half of it, then you buy a gun after two thirds, when you get to the last couple of pages you breathe through and think you nearly made it, then you read the last paragraph and you lock and load.

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