I really didn't know what to expect when I cracked this book open. Obviously the title gives a small hint that this book won't be a light chick read.
David the local physics professor survives a plane crash but loses his wife and daughter, he can't remember anything of the actual crash which is really disturbing to him. He just wants to end his life and soon.
His sister hires Molly (who used to baby sit his daughter Emily) to make sure the casseroles left at the door are heated and that David eats and takes his medications. Molly is pretty wise beyond her years and she suffers being made fun of by the local kids because of her Mothers weird art projects which are displayed locally when they are finished. Molly just wants to get away! She does go to her Fathers part of the time but his new wife and daughters don't treat her very well there either.
She is most comfortable when she is with David which she finds kind of confusing. David is very attached to her also which he knows there is nothing he can do with that! She is way to young.....
Molly does have to deal David's depression and she really doesn't know what do do about that. She is so attached to David, the locals all come to assume what is going on with Molly and David.
I don't want to go too much into the story and ruin the middle and the ending of the book for you. This is a great read and the book is engrossing and very real, all of what happens to Molly, David, her Mother are all things that could happen in any small town. The talk alone is something that could happen in any town.
I received this book through Shelf Awareness in exchange for my honest review. I really didn't know what to expect when I cracked this book open. Obviously the title gives a small hint that this book won't be a light chick read.
David the local physics professor survives a plane crash but loses his wife and daughter, he can't remember anything of the actual crash which is really disturbing to him. He just wants to end his life and soon.
His sister hires Molly (who used to baby sit his daughter Emily) to make sure the casseroles left at the door are heated and that David eats and takes his medications. Molly is pretty wise beyond her years and she suffers being made fun of by the local kids because of her Mothers weird art projects which are displayed locally when they are finished. Molly just wants to get away! She does go to her Fathers part of the time but his new wife and daughters don't treat her very well there either.
She is most comfortable when she is with David which she finds kind of confusing. David is very attached to her also which he knows there is nothing he can do with that! She is way to young.....
Molly does have to deal David's depression and she really doesn't know what do do about that. She is so attached to David, the locals all come to assume what is going on with Molly and David.
I don't want to go too much into the story and ruin the middle and the ending of the book for you. This is a great read and the book is engrossing and very real, all of what happens to Molly, David, her Mother are all things that could happen in any small town. The talk alone is something that could happen in any town.
I received this book through Shelf Awareness in exchange for my honest review.
As found on Good Reads: It’s the summer of 1977 in a small town in Western Massachusetts. Physics professor David Asken has just lost his young family in a plane crash he somehow survived. Sixteen-year-old neighbor Molly Carmichael used to be the babysitter, but now will be keeping house for him while he recuperates. He’s quietly planning to end his life just as soon as he can drive again, but may not be willing to wait that long after he comes across his dead wife’s journal and encounters more hostility than he had ever imagined. Molly is trying to cope with being known as Tampon Girl, thanks to a sculpture by her notorious artist mother, but she will have to deal with much worse than that after a drunken teenage party.
Both man and girl are going to have to grow up the hard way, and it’s their unexpected connection — fraught with potential scandal — that may just help them do it. This provocative coming-of-age novel asks: Is there ever a time when doing the wrong thing might be exactly right?
This is the second book from Sandra Hutchison's, whose debut novel THE AWFUL MESS: A LOVE STORY, an Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award semifinalist, has been downloaded by over 55,000 readers
As found on Good Reads: It’s the summer of 1977 in a small town in Western Massachusetts. Physics professor David Asken has just lost his young family in a plane crash he somehow survived. Sixteen-year-old neighbor Molly Carmichael used to be the babysitter, but now will be keeping house for him while he recuperates. He’s quietly planning to end his life just as soon as he can drive again, but may not be willing to wait that long after he comes across his dead wife’s journal and encounters more hostility than he had ever imagined. Molly is trying to cope with being known as Tampon Girl, thanks to a sculpture by her notorious artist mother, but she will have to deal with much worse than that after a drunken teenage party.
Both man and girl are going to have to grow up the hard way, and it’s their unexpected connection — fraught with potential scandal — that may just help them do it. This provocative coming-of-age novel asks: Is there ever a time when doing the wrong thing might be exactly right?
This is the second book from Sandra Hutchison's, whose debut novel THE AWFUL MESS: A LOVE STORY, an Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award semifinalist, has been downloaded by over 55,000 readers
