Disclosure: I got this book from the publisher. I requested it because it was being heralded as a great debut and was on this February’s LibraryReads list, and I wanted (and still want) to include it in a booktalk I have coming up!
Happy release week to The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray!
This book is about how you can’t run from your experiences growing up. What happens when you’re a kid is going to impact you and the relationships you have as you get older. It’s about what happens when you face your struggles head on, when you bury those struggles and everything in between.
It’s about a family struggling through betrayals — it’s about trying to do the right thing and trying to figure out what that is.
It’s about the complex layers of family. The loyalty that may keep you hanging by a thread, the choosing to love when things get hard, the choosing to sever ties when needed, the unspoken and the assumed.
But mostly this character-driven drama, is about three sisters: Althea, Viola, and Lillian. Althea is in jail, Lillian is watching her children, and Viola is supposed to swoop in from Chicago and save the day. But oh, how much more complicated everything is.
An absorbing read for those that like stories about families with a lot of the realistic hardship of life thrown in, but yet still are mixed strongly with hope.
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