I did enjoy reading this book as I was involved in the first
segregation of Pontiac I was bussed over to the other side of town. I didn’t like it as the schools weren’t as
clean and well kept up. I didn’t really
love getting mixed in with kids from that side of town at first but by the time
I got the second school on my side of town with a mixed group I found that I
had some friends in some of the classes that were black. I remember that I didn’t feel as safe over at
Eastern Jr. High as I did when I was at Kennedy. I hadn’t been educated in a mixed crowd it
was good to face my fears and find out that things weren’t going to be as bad
as I thought. In the book there are
several women with children who have different problems and the stories revolve
around them. I thought that the book
seemed to slow a little in different parts so that was why I didn’t give it
five stars. It wasn’t that I opened the
book and wanted to read it all the way through and forget my responsibilities
as I do with some books so this wasn’t a five on my scale. It was eye opening as there were some things
in the story line that I wouldn’t have thought about and I saw the bussing through
their eyes. It was a good read and some
would enjoy it more than I, I am sure.
Not every book is for every person.
ABOUT NO ONE
EVER ASKED:
Challenging
perceptions of discrimination and prejudice, this emotionally resonant drama
for readers of Lisa Wingate and Jodi Picoult explores three different women navigating
challenges in a changing school district–and in their lives.
When an
impoverished school district loses its accreditation and the affluent community
of Crystal Ridge has no choice but to open their school doors, the lives of
three very different women converge: Camille Gray–the wife of an executive,
mother of three, long-standing PTA chairwoman and champion fundraiser–faced
with a shocking discovery that threatens to tear her picture-perfect world
apart at the seams. Jen Covington, the career nurse whose long, painful journey
to motherhood finally resulted in adoption but she is struggling with a
happily-ever-after so much harder than she anticipated. Twenty-two-year-old
Anaya Jones–the first woman in her family to graduate college and a brand new
teacher at Crystal Ridge’s top elementary school, unprepared for the powder-keg
situation she’s stepped into. Tensions rise within and without, culminating in
an unforeseen event that impacts them all. This story explores the implicit
biases impacting American society, and asks the ultimate question: What does it
mean to be human? Why are we so quick to put labels on each other and
categorize people as “this” or “that”, when such complexity exists in each
person?
ABOUT KATIE GANSHERT
KATIE GANSHERT is
the author of several novels and works of short fiction, including the Christy
Award-winning A Broken Kind of Beautiful and Carol Award-winner, The Art of
Losing Yourself. Katie lives in eastern Iowa with her family.
