Life for a teenage girl is always, well, awkward. Out of school, nothing going on and wanting to solve the heavy problem of why her birth mother dumped her as a baby Sophie had little patience with the nosey new girl down the street. So to avoid explanations she couldn’t give answers too she announced her mother had been murdered. After all that was better than thinking she was a throw away.
Didn’t really help much though so as part of her exploration of why someone could just cast off another human being Sophie took a job at a local nursing home, a place where old people where dropped off and forgotten. Cain then takes us on an exploration through a world that is seen through the eyes of the care-givers that labor to help those less fortunate than most.
Set in the South, in the race-torn years of the 1970’s, we are treated to story where the color of your skin has no bearing on the status of your life, where thrown away people and adopted girls have little consequence as to what goes on in the daily lives of those who only live for today, not by their choice but by the hand of their creator. As the small town folks lives meld, Sophie learns that life is fragile but relationships are stronger, that we all have a place even if it is not what you hoped or imagined.
The community deals with death and divorce, adoption and adaption. In a story that is reminiscent of the similar-styled time and setting, Fried Green Tomatoes, we see a teenager become a young lady with depth and understanding, and we meet Miss Rabbit. The afore-mentioned secret keeper has a story to tell but has chosen to not speak for the last four years. Can Sophie and her secrets draw out what has been hidden for years and how will revelations from the past affect Sophie’s future journey.
The mystique of untold secrets and unsolvable pasts, have drawn us to stories for ever and this is no different. Cain has excelled in the presentation of her latest novel and I highly recommend taking the time to discover Miss Rabbit’s secrets.

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Life for a teenage girl is always, well, awkward. Out of school, nothing going on and wanting to solve the heavy problem of why her birth mother dumped her as a baby Sophie had little patience with the nosey new girl down the street. So to avoid explanations she couldn’t give answers too she announced her mother had been murdered. After all that was better than thinking she was a throw away.
Didn’t really help much though so as part of her exploration of why someone could just cast off another human being Sophie took a job at a local nursing home, a place where old people where dropped off and forgotten. Cain then takes us on an exploration through a world that is seen through the eyes of the care-givers that labor to help those less fortunate than most.
Set in the South, in the race-torn years of the 1970’s, we are treated to story where the color of your skin has no bearing on the status of your life, where thrown away people and adopted girls have little consequence as to what goes on in the daily lives of those who only live for today, not by their choice but by the hand of their creator. As the small town folks lives meld, Sophie learns that life is fragile but relationships are stronger, that we all have a place even if it is not what you hoped or imagined.
The community deals with death and divorce, adoption and adaption. In a story that is reminiscent of the similar-styled time and setting, Fried Green Tomatoes, we see a teenager become a young lady with depth and understanding, and we meet Miss Rabbit. The afore-mentioned secret keeper has a story to tell but has chosen to not speak for the last four years. Can Sophie and her secrets draw out what has been hidden for years and how will revelations from the past affect Sophie’s future journey.
The mystique of untold secrets and unsolvable pasts, have drawn us to stories for ever and this is no different. Cain has excelled in the presentation of her latest novel and I highly recommend taking the time to discover Miss Rabbit’s secrets.

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