Another small and easy book to read, the blurb on the back of the book really didn't make me want to read this book (part of the reason why I find it hard to just pick up a book and read it - the blurbs never sound interesting), but many people had mentioned that this was a good book that I might enjoy, so one day, on the train, after having it sit in my bag for a good two months, I decided to finally give it a chance.It wasn't too bad I suppose. At one point when I had nothing better to do with my time, I was actually quite happy to pick the book back up again and try to read as much of it as possible.
The story is about a little girl who is yearning to find out the truth about how her mother died. She has a tense relationship with her father, and after witnessing a heated exchange between her black nanny (the book is set in South Carolina in 1964 around the time the Civil Rights Act was signed) and a group of racist white men she runs away from home and spends the rest of the book with her nanny and some new characters in a completely different town and a different way of life.
I have to admit that I skimmed through certain parts of the book (but I think for almost all books, there'll be a part that my attention span sort of disappears and I just need to do it), but as a whole I really enjoyed the different ideas and characters that were presented in the book.
It had some serious issues, but as a whole, it was quite light and didn't make me feel depressed in any way. There aren't any surprises in the plot and I was happy with the way it ended. Everything made sense and carried out how they felt like they should have.
I would recommend this book to anyone who wants a simple, quick, positive read.
-picture courtesy of www.chapters.indigo.ca
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