Review: A Week that changed three lives
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 8, 2014
Bess McBride has created a love story between shy Jenny and Clint. Bess McBride presents us the reader with the dilemma; move out of your comfort zone-do something uncomfortable put on your dancing shoes-do something. How often are we to afraid to fail, too embarrassed because of what we think we should be instead of cherishing what and who we are? In Ms. McBride's works we often focus on the romance side-while this is great and true, it took me a deletion to realize that the deeper theme of this book wasn't about romance, it is about two groups that we tend to isolate Veterans and Native Americans. Somewhere in the book, someone comments about Indian Reservations as "only stopping when I need gasoline." This got me thinking how many times we just drive by things where people live. How many times have we all heard, "Glad I don't have to live there" or "look how beautiful they maintain that cemetery...look at those flags". Two groups who have so much in common yet are so different. Ms. Bride brings a deeper understanding with "welcoming home the veterans" I cried and I don't cry. So Bess McBride's Jenny Clussler's Last Standing is so much more- one needs to sit down and read a Goodread.