“I love this book. Like The Alchemist, you might not know where you’ll end up when you start a journey, but when it takes courage and inspiration and it would be so much easier to just give up and turn back, you know you’re doing life’s work. Unlike The Alchemist, it is an American journey about a young woman who spent her youth sheltered in the confines of a well meaning but repressive religion which she has rejected. But how does she go about fearlessly entering the world that she’s had been warned about for so long? With the help of some new friends, she makes a list consisting of never before tried adventures, each more daunting than the one before. And where does she end up? Knowing herself and trusting her own wisdom; a different person altogether. As I was reading this book, it echoed the book I had read just previous to it, Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee. It has complicated childhood characters entrenched in a culture,a beautifully drawn narrative, and a landscape of laughter and tears.”
December 3, 2017