Rating: 4 out of 5
If You Like: Coming of Age Novels, Romance, A Good Cry
Similar To: Nicholas Sparks novels but actually pretty unique
Ages: 13-100
This book was unlike anything else I had read. I loved the alternating story lines between mother (Marilyn) and daughter (Angie).
Marilyn grew up with a mother who wanted her to make it big as an actress. When Marilyn is seventeen, her mother and her move in with Marilyn's alcoholic uncle in Los Angeles so that she can accomplish the dream that Marilyn's mother, Sylvia, has planned. While there Marilyn meets a boy her age named James and she falls in love with both him and his family Years later (in Angie's timeline), we find out that Marilyn no longer lives near Los Angeles and works a regular job that provides for her seventeen year old daughter, Angie.
Angie grew up without a father. Her mother has always had a hard time talking about it, but Angie has been told that her father and his brother died in a car accident when they were young. Angie snoops through her mother's things and finds some clues about her father and his family and she enlists an old boyfriend to drive her hundreds of miles in search of her past.
This story was devastatingly beautiful and I would recommend that everyone reads this book.
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