Review: Fabulous Fiction!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 24, 2013
Fabulous read! Gun-toting gangsters, flappers, bootleggers...Kate is one of four children - her little brother Woody is confined to a wheelchair, her older sister Rosalie, the perfect homemaker, is engaged to a minister, and her younger sister Aggie is a flapper. Kate is between semesters at Wellesly, studying biology.Following the death of Kate's father, the family is left deep in debt. With the help of a young boy, an injured veteran, and the son of a fisherman, Kate takes on the improbable job of running bootleg whiskey from Canada to save her family home. With gangster Felix Garvey, the Coast Guard, a nosy neighbor, a scheming relative, and a charming distraction for a partner, will an improbable job become an impossible job?Myers paints a vivid picture of both sides of society in the 1920s - and, the romance between classes is very nicely written. Myers also introduces a host of characters between the two main families in the story, and does a wonderful job of making them all a well-rounded part of the story without trampling the main story line.