![]() ![]() Twenty-three year old Becca visits her grandmother more frequently than even her parents, leaving her sisters to scold her for it. ![]() Not everyone has the experience of caring for grandparents, and so I decided to add my two cents: this book is incredibly accurate in its depictions of the elderly, and even the nursing homes- many are still like that today, despite our best efforts to make them home-like and sanitary. While I was reading this book, I found the heroine immensely relatable due to that: she saw her grandmother as a person, even in her most senile of moments, which is how it should be. My grandma is a gem of a person, and she has so much experience in life that boggles the mind: she was at the very first school shooting in America, she was raised on a farm and rode a horse or walked to school, and decided to be a nurse when it was highly controversial (young women looking after male bodies was a no-no at the time). I was in the same position a year ago, living with my grandma who is elderly, along with my mother. I read this last year, and was unaware that people considered it of the Young Adult genre, mainly because the heroine is twenty three years old and is taking care of her This is a book that combines the ominous historical elements of the Holocaust with the whimsy of a fairy tale, without being drawn out or boring. ![]()
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