Anticipating a boring summer at her grandmother's house, Angela complains about the area's lack of video stores, malls, and other twelve-year-old kids but is soon captivated by the story of her great-grandmother's life. Reprint.
I like how this story flipped between the main character and the story of her great grandmother at a similar age. However, it felt like the tie between the two was weak at best.
There does not seem to be a main character somehow. It's so short that you don't get to know any one of them very well, which feels weird for someone like me who is used to reading longer books where the characters are explored more deeply. The connections between the past and the present seem to be the star of this story.
It was an interesting book but did not really give a lesson or have as much of a storyline and plot as I am used to. It told the stories of a great-grand-mother and great-grand-daughter every other chapter but it was not confusing at all. An interesting read but not one I'd read again.
To weed or not to weed. That was the question. Decided to keep. Would be a good story for a child with a similar circumstance. I liked the way the GGMa's childhood was slowly revealed.