Review: PASS ME ANOTHER BOX OF TISSUE......
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 13, 2013
It took me longer than usual to read this story as my eyes would be clouded with tears...for the characters in the story, for the  "characters" in my own life, for the years of deception that should not have happened as one lie gathered and snowballed into so many more.Ms. Smith covered this decade written about painfully perfect.  I hear my Mother's voice when Eleanor speaks,  and all my friends Mother's voices.  Closemindedness was the norm, notthe exception it should have been....I can only remember one girl in school who lived in a single parent household due to divorce (a whispered word spoken behind a cupped hand.)  We were discouraged from inviting her home and were told not to go inside her home....."birds of a feather, you know."It was still the years of black and white drinking fountains in department stores and guys weren't even mentioned except in jokes.I was adopted but found out through a classmate when I was 16, not a good way or a good time, it had become a secret that festered.  Don't pass this book by, you will be amazed how times and attitudes have changed.