Sexy, smart-mouthed Melody Sawyer is an underachiever, a home health care nurse with good intentions and a chip on her shoulder. Her troubled daughter Renee recently dropped dead at age 24, but Renee’s ghost keeps popping in on the family. And Melody has no clue about her married daughter, Kayla–who since age 16 has been deep in a clandestine affair with pro baseball player Baron Lee Presley. Join the Sawyer women on their offbeat, darkly funny, and sometimes tragic journey as they try to conquer the hardest thing in this world.
Nicole Eva Fraser received her MFA in creative writing from the NEOMFA consortium in northeast Ohio and graduated summa cum laude from Baldwin-Wallace College with a double major in English and communications. She is an adult-literacy advocate in Cleveland, Tanzania and Malawi. She runs 10ks (slowly), used to speak French, and often can be found putting her foot in her mouth.
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My Review:
Because of the connection I felt with the characters this book was not an easy read, for me. That is a good thing. The mental illness awareness in this book is phenomenal. Not only do we see the characters as adults, but we also see them growing up, and even some as ghosts. Everyone knows at least one person with a mental illness, however we do not know what they go through, or even what their loved ones go through. Melody was a different character to watch. Once we find out how she became who she is, I felt all sorts of emotions for her, and about her. I am giving this book a 4/5. I was given a copy to review, however all opinions are my own.
Because of the connection I felt with the characters this book was not an easy read, for me. That is a good thing. The mental illness awareness in this book is phenomenal. Not only do we see the characters as adults, but we also see them growing up, and even some as ghosts. Everyone knows at least one person with a mental illness, however we do not know what they go through, or even what their loved ones go through. Melody was a different character to watch. Once we find out how she became who she is, I felt all sorts of emotions for her, and about her. I am giving this book a 4/5. I was given a copy to review, however all opinions are my own.
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