Currently 50 pages short of finishing Child of My Heart. Its one of those books which its hard to say "what its about". I guess you could say it is about a 15 year old girl who lives in a summer town and baby/dogsits for most of the neighbourhood.
Its also "about" her cousin Daisy (8) who comes to stay with her for a while. Daisy who has mysterious and long lasting bruises, fevers and other things that are really making me worry she has leukemia.
This book has been a slight challenge for me, mainly because there aren't chapters per se and the breaks between what I am going to call days are long. And sometimes there are random things that happen where I start to tune out if you will, but I really don't want to because I know that there is something inherently important about what is going on.
I know it is starting to sound like I don't like this book, but I am actually enjoying it. It is written in a different style than I usually read and is almost like a day to day diary of the first person narrator.
I am definitely, for lack of a better word - excited, to see what ends up happening, really really hoping this one doesn't end in tears.
Coming of age - that's one way to describe it.
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