The story is about a young girl, Grace that has an addict for a mother and sits out on the front steps on her apartment building hoping that her neighbors may notice and help her. If I could give this book more stars, I would. I adored this book. The addict is in need of sobriety which her child longs for. Excellent novel! As a result he has little if any contact with his neighbours in his building.
The various happenings are kind of wild and crazy and yet the inner dynamics seem very real and engaging. Catherine Ryan Hyde has this unique gift in which she takes marginalized characters and forces us to see them, to hear them, and best of all, to care for them. There is one character who drifts into the story who is very much at one with himself and he seems to be the one to turn the tide with really gentl. He inches his patio door open and when he asks her why she's sitting out there, she answers; “If I sit inside, then nobody will know I’m in trouble. When they move into the basement of a small, not so nice apartment building, the other tenants start to realize that she is going unsupervised and become concerned.
They were trying to help her, but she wound up helping each of them in an equally profound way. As they each try to get to the bottom of her story, Grace starts to grow on and eventually steal their hearts. [At least the story ends on an upbeat note. The character created in Billy Shine, the neighbor who is an agoraphobic and former dancing star, was perhaps the most inspiring. Refresh and try again. SOLVED. I loved it and it annoyed me all at the same time. Grace's s. There are those authors who create such life within the characters they write that you immediately are drawn into their story, and Catherine Ryan Hyde is that author. This is the first book by this author, that I've read.
I downloaded this book for free back in 2011 and now I can finally cross it off my TBR.
Grace is a lively and engaging character who quickly finds her way into the reader’s heart.
Every day that she can't go to school because her mom can't get her there, she sits on the steps outside so that someone will notice her and help her. But all that changes the day he notices 9 year old Grace sitting out on the steps all by herself. Billy, an ex dancer and neighbour in Grace’s apartment block is agoraphobic and hasn’t been out of his apartment in many years. The story is centered around that apartment building and the neighbors that Grace meets. I listened to the audiobook and, on balance, the two readers do a good job, although with one major letdown to which I return below.
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