Review: Rachel Eliason Scores Again
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 6, 2013
This is a story of three remarkable young people and the courage each displays in playing the hand they have been dealt, and Ms. Eliason rises to the challenge of telling it with considerable grace, compassion, and humor. Despite the fact that, at the end of the story there is a resolution of sorts, this isn't a "warm fuzzies, feel good" type of read. As in her first novel, "Run, Clarissa, Run," Ms. Eliason deals with subjects that can take the average reader out of his or her comfort zone, which is all the more reason to read this book.I read her first book and was impressed by the author's ability to pull a reader into unfamiliar and sometimes uncomfortable territory and impart understanding and empathy on the reader's part without making the book a sermon. Rather, she has a knack for storytelling, pure and simple. I came away from both books with a new awareness of what life is like for people who are marginalized, if not outright ignored by the society they live in.It is worth noting ,too, that, as much as I enjoyed Ms. Eliason's first effort, she has grown as a writer, and has produced an even stronger result.I would go so far as to say that Rachel Eliason will become an important voice for those whom society would like to ignore or keep out of sight.