Can a man with a broken body and a woman with a broken soul help each other find the redemption they need to become whole again?
MY REVIEW:
What an amazingly sweet story. I wasn’t sure how it would go when at five
percent I was truly disliking Samirah Lundgren the female lead. The author went to great lengths to make her
unlikeable.
But as they progress from that point on
this character evolves not totally by choices, in fact, no choices really. As to why you will have to read it. But her roommate thinks she’s to blame. So, she wants her out by that night. Feeling she may in some way have added to the
chain of events she leaves with only what she moved in with several years
before when her mom died. A backpack,
with pictures, clothes, and some money.
She had been saving so long with her purse, phone, and her mail she
left.
She had been out with her married
boyfriend Chase the night before but things are super blurry. Now she has already admitted to herself that
she has a drinking problem but this is different. This time she’s sore between her legs yet he
brought her home. She doesn’t remember going to his apartment here in the city.
She gets to Union Station as she is
sitting she finds herself extremely thirsty.
When she hears a town that sounds familiar. When it dawns on her it’s from a card out of
the mail she grabbed on her way out. It’s
a, ‘Save the date’ for her third cousin’s wedding. She is her mom’s cousin’s daughter. Barb and her mom were close as children. They weren’t close but their moms were. It’s a place to start anew.
When she gets to the little town she is
hurting so bad she is shaking from fever and pissing razor blades. So, she decides to find a clinic. She neglects to ask which way and just starts
walking but in the wrong direction. It
starts raining being in a ditch she squats to pee and while doing so she gets
beaned in the head by what she thought was a rock.
Instead what she finds out is that a guy
across the street, Michael Salinger (Sally) to his friends. He has been a paraplegic for the past three
years and has just gotten some bad news today from his ex-girlfriend for the
six years prior to that. She had given
the engagement ring back that he had planned on giving to her the day he was
struck down by a drunk driver while waiting for a light at a crosswalk.
In fact, he had just left the jewelry store. Sally can’t take that fact that not only does
she not love him anymore but that she has just told him she is marrying one of
his three best friends who he just went out for drinks with two days ago. It explained now why he had been distant and
had a chip on his shoulder.
He apologies to Sam for throwing the ring
at her when she yells in pain. She tells
him to watch it. He asks if she needs a
ride. She is in such a panic by just the
simple question that says, fine. Then
just peels out and goes home.
The next morning on his way to work he
comes to screeching halt across the street because there she is this same chick
at least it has to be because she is almost about where he had left her but she
is not looking that good. So, again he asks
do you need a ride. She says no, then he
establishes she needs to get to a clinic.
But she still looks like a scared animal.
So, he asks her to keep an eye out for
traffic. He gets himself out of the car
and that is when she sees the wheelchair and her fear factor scales way
down. That is when she finally agrees to
go with him to the clinic. But instead,
he takes her to the hospital because he says he would take his dog to the
clinic.
See how these two broken and battered
people become whole again on so many levels.
What exactly makes you a good person?
What exactly makes you whole? See
how these two, work through all the twist and turns of their pasts and confront
the irony of the present. I wish I could
give this more than my 5++++ stars.
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