Review: A Social Experiment turned Good
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 26, 2014
I love this book.  Too often in our world today we cast aspersions on the teen mother, her family, her future, and her plight.  In this work, we meet a young woman who has placed herself adrift in a society she does not really understand.  Seemingly tired of her lfe in a middle sized town, her boyfriend of some time, her job that she had loved, and her own ambitions, she throws it all away to return to the home of her father, a mysterious man of few words with whom she has had NO relationship throughout her life.  Close to her mother and her stepfather, she is in a situation where they are on an around the world excursion which is to last a year toward which they have planned for sometime.  So, our heroine finds herself in a situation where she is not comfortable with contacting them and spoiling their trip.  Instead, she shows up at her father's home in a very small town, with no friends nor confidants.  Her first contact is in a tiny local cafe, The Heartbreak Cafe.  There she finds a kindly older woman with whom she can chat and from whom she learns great lessons about life.  She is also thrown into contact with two of the girls, now women, she had met as a very young girl when trying to visit her father.  In this impersonal environment, she learns about her mother and father as young people, the history of this little town in which she was born, and most surprisingly, herself.  There are times in this reading where I wanted to just reach out and SMACK some of the characters, and at a time or two, the heroine herself.  No way did I ever expect the ending.  No way!  It is wonderful.  I believe you will love it as much as I did!