Review: Very moving and heart-rending story
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 17, 2013
This is a story of ten year old Sunni Brown whose father deserted her and her mother. Unable to continue to pay the rent on their apartment they are evicted. They go to a shelter, which is full, even overcrowded, and bribe the manager to be able to stay. The story tells about Sunni's first several months in the shelter and the terrible conditions in the shelter: about two families that squat on mats near her who try unsuccessfully to protect Sunni, how Sunni's mother deteriorates, how Sunni almost dies of hunger, the use of drugs in the shelter, the manager walking around with a gun to protect himself, and the manager and the landlord wanting sex.