Read this for my book group; I didn't expect to like it, but I did like it and I found it very easy to read.
For me, the narrative did start to lag about two-thirds of the way through; I can't quite put my finger on why but I definitely thought so. Perhaps it was, in part, that the protagonist had gone through so many changes that by that point, she was really a different person, one I wasn't so interested in.
It's also the case that there was a discussion of retailing at that point that just bothered me. It bored me; it interrupted the narrative flow. And, it reminded me of the Nora Roberts books I have read where having your own business is the ultimate dream and the business dreamed of is always a retail establishment.
Molly is in foster care and she's just about to age out of the system. She's bounced from foster home to foster home, and she's emotionally closed off as a result. She gets into trouble and is given a sentence of 50 community service hours. Her boyfriend, anxious to help her, arranges for her to help a 91-year-old retire clean out her attic. What happens to her in that attic changes everything.
(Molly's employer reminisces about her life, which proves to have been both fascinating and heartbreaking.)
For me, the narrative did start to lag about two-thirds of the way through; I can't quite put my finger on why but I definitely thought so. Perhaps it was, in part, that the protagonist had gone through so many changes that by that point, she was really a different person, one I wasn't so interested in.
It's also the case that there was a discussion of retailing at that point that just bothered me. It bored me; it interrupted the narrative flow. And, it reminded me of the Nora Roberts books I have read where having your own business is the ultimate dream and the business dreamed of is always a retail establishment.
Molly is in foster care and she's just about to age out of the system. She's bounced from foster home to foster home, and she's emotionally closed off as a result. She gets into trouble and is given a sentence of 50 community service hours. Her boyfriend, anxious to help her, arranges for her to help a 91-year-old retire clean out her attic. What happens to her in that attic changes everything.
(Molly's employer reminisces about her life, which proves to have been both fascinating and heartbreaking.)
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