Thanks so much to NetGalley, Mira Books and Brianna Wolfson for the opportunity to read this amazing book! This one will hit the shelves on Tuesday - reserve it now because it's not to be missed!
This is the story of Rosie, a quirky character happily living in Manhattan, flitting from job to job, filling her life with color and eccentricity. Enter Rex, who walks into the flower shop where she's working and where she changed the card for flowers he ordered from the norm to a poem by ee Cummings. They are polar opposites - Rex likes rules, structure, boundaries and Rosie has none of those. But she opens up his heart with her smile.
When they move to the suburbs and their family expands to include children Willow and Asher, things start to change ending in a divorce. The book starts with Willow and Asher unhappily going from their mom's wild house with candy, no rules, no bedtime to Rex's house with printed checklists for his expectations. The past is told in alternate chapters, showing the reader how the relationship evolved.
The writing of this book is wonderful. You feel the angst of the characters. There are all kinds of triggers here - mental illness, bullying, loss, hope, love, parent-child relationships.
This is a spectacular debut novel - these characters will stay with me. Highly recommended! Here's hoping that the author is busy at work on her next novel!
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