Play Book Tag discussion

3.5 stars rounded up
This is the one of the better books I've read by Sepetys.

Set in 1950 this is the story of Josie, daughter of a prostitute who aspires to a different life than her mother. She lives in a converted office upstairs from a bookstore where where she works to pay her rent--she started sleeping under the desk secretly (so she thought) at 10 but on her 11th birthday found a bed had been put there. I am not sure if it was an accident later or if the character decided to go up an age when she said she'd been on her own since she was 12, but I did notice this.

This is a young adult novel, and so I judge it by that. As for the dreaded love triangle, it didn't bother me nearly as much in this book as it usually dows, but I thought it got carried on too long.(view spoiler)[I also found it very difficult to believe a man would be willing to pay $1500 to deflower a young teen in 1950, but I can't find anything about that with just a quick internet search, and it might have been possible. In that year the median home value across the state of Louisiana was $5,112 in 1950 dollars (more in the city of New Orleans, of course). (hide spoiler)]