Review: GRITTY SLICE-OF-LIFE
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 9, 2012
This is not a feel-good book.  It's a down and dirty look at a gritty side of life.  Vivid descriptions take the reader into the life of Hailey, a teenaged girl who worries about her parents, her brother, and her own future in a world where nothing seems to go right.  The writing is tight and concise in this slice-of-life novel.  It showed me a world where I've never had to live - - and I hope I never will.  It's important to see - and perhaps understand somewhat - the events that motivate unfortunate people to do the things they do. I finished the book hoping that Hailey will somehow - against the odds - turn out ok.