Review: Delightful
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 22, 2014
This is a raw passionate read. That said let me add that I do not believe this author meant all of her lines to be taken literally, no, five-year-olds, as a rule, cannot carry the weight of babies, fouteen-year-olds cannot, commonly, land jobs, even in Brazil, and eleven-year-olds seldom torture their families by bringing home their latest, ill-conceived date. I think this author added these details more in keeping with how we perceive our memories of things--often the dates and even some of the facts are fuzzy, but the sentiment is bulls-eye on target. This read is much like the emotions it portraits--it is real, evocative and hard-hitting. I found it mesmerizing, hard-to-put-down and very unique in both style and story-line... and, yes, I loved it.Sunday Morning, yes, that is her name, is rebellious, selfish and childish, she is trouble waiting to happen. She finds it in a fashion no young girl should have to, and then blames herself for it. This book is like a good Chinese proverb, it offers insight, wisdom and a series of possibilities rather than solutions, solutions after all would be way too much of a fairy-tale ending. I thought this book was intelligent, deft and topical. (Also, the Brazilian facts and tidbits are scrumptious.) Sunday has been a bad girl, and now, she thinks she deserves the cancer she has contracted: what she needs is a loving, thoughtful, caring, beautiful strong man to show her the error of her thoughts and offer her a brighter future... Ahhh, is that what she gets? read the book to find out, it's certainly worth it.