Title: Faithful
Genre: Literary Fiction
Author: Alice Hoffnman
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Nov. 1, 2016
Source: Free for review from the publisher
Pages: 272
Rating: 4.5
Sexy Rating: 5 (not explicit)
Violence Rating: 5
Description from Amazon.com:
Growing up on Long Island, Shelby Richmond is an ordinary girl until one night an extraordinary tragedy changes her fate. Her best friend’s future is destroyed in an accident, while Shelby walks away with the burden of guilt. What happens when a life is turned inside out? When love is something so distant it may as well be a star in the sky? Faithful is the story of a survivor, filled with emotion—from dark suffering to true happiness—a moving portrait of a young woman finding her way in the modern world. A fan of Chinese food, dogs, bookstores, and men she should stay away from, Shelby has to fight her way back to her own future. In New York City she finds a circle of lost and found souls—including an angel who’s been watching over her ever since that fateful icy night.
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The book blurb pretty much says it all. This a story of the journey from the depths of despair to the realization of dreams and happiness. Shelby is nearly totally destroyed by the accident that left her best friend in a vegetative coma. She struggles through that despair with drugs, time in the mental ward and self-hatred by shaving her head. She makes mistakes that cost her emotionally but at the same time encourage her growth as a mature person. The prose in this book is superb, the characterization of every character true to each personality. You will laugh and cry for Shelby and with her but you won’t forget this book.
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