Being sixteen-years-old is supposed to be the best time of your life. Hanging out with friends, dating, and trying to pick the best college to go to are the many woes of being a teenager. But for Harmony, things aren’t quite that simple. She’s a teenager dealing with the pressures of being over-weight and the fact that her mother is dying.
Harmony’s entire life has been turned upside down after finding out her mother has stage four Breast Cancer. She feels that she is capable of taking care of her mother without the help of her estranged father, who moved back to St. Louis from Chicago, Illinois after finding out his wife is dying. Harmony resents him because he chose his music over his family. And now, he’s trying to come back into their house and lay down the law, which Harmony is not having.
As someone who doesn’t like overly religious books or fiction too focused on God or the Church, I found the love and faith in God to be very tastefully woven into this book even though strong at times.
The love of Harmony for her mother, her mother’s love for God, the friendships that were like family in this book were truly beautiful and the author has a talent for conveying relationships.
The love, the pain, the struggle, even navigating teenage life was conveyed beautifully and I thoroughly enjoyed this book
The word c-a-n-c-e-r is ugly in so many ways. In this book the author brings everything around in a full circle. Each characters is fighting with their own demons in their lives. But in the end the story has an awesome ending.