Wish Me
Home by Kay Bratt! 5 Stars!!
I loved
this book so very much. This book is
about a woman on a journey, one in which she is fleeing a situation which her
twin sister created. The story is about
all of the people she meets along the way and how they affect her life, helping
her out before sending her back on her journey, some trying to harm her and the
dog she meets at the beginning who she ends up taking along with her because he
won’t stay behind. This book was
heartwarming, and engrossing and the characters so well thought out. In the end it is also about the sister and
her twin she left behind, and their relationship as twins. The book had me thinking of my own sisters
who are twins, the relationship I never really understood because I am not a
twin. We lost one of my sisters a couple
of years ago and I was thinking of her a lot while reading this book at one
point it had me almost in tears. I don’t
need to give you the description it is shown below. I read about the author after I finished the
book, she is a twin and her Mom was a twin.
I guess you could say she understands twins far more than I.
I can
only say this book was so well written that you want cheer the woman on when
things go her way and you want to grieve with her when she is having a struggle
and the ending is so very well written.
If you are a dog person this story really will lift your heart
also. I loved the way the story is
written around Hemingway also, and the quotes of his sprinkled through the
story. I’ve never been to the Florida
Keys but feel as if I had visited them through this book. For all of those reasons you should pick up
this book and read it. It won’t let you
down!
I
received this book through Netgalley.com in the kindle format. I voluntarily
read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are
my own. #WishMeHome. #NetGalley
#KayBratt
Description
as found on Netgalley:
In her first work of contemporary women’s fiction, bestselling
author Kay Bratt draws on her own life experiences to create a raw, yet
inescapably warm, novel about friendship and a wary heart’s unexpected capacity
to love. A hungry, stray dog is the last
thing Cara Butter needs. Stranded in Georgia with only her backpack and a few
dwindling dollars, she already has too much baggage. Like her twin sister,
Hana, who has broken Cara’s heart one too many times. After a lifetime of
family troubles, and bouncing from one foster home to another, Cara decides to
leave it all behind and strike out alone—on foot.
Cara sets off to Florida to see the home of her literary hero,
Ernest Hemingway, accompanied only by Hemi, the stray dog who proves to be the
perfect travel companion. But the harrowing trip takes unexpected turns as
strangers become friends who make her question everything, and Cara finds that
as the journey unfolds, so does her life—in ways she could never imagine.
