Calling the situation in this book "hard scrabble" like the short summary in the catalog says does not really capture the depressed state of the family featured in this book. There are four kids trying to get by with an absentee, drunken, father after their mother passed away in child birth years ago. It is not a pretty situation and the author does a good job of relaying the filth, poverty, and despair of the main character who is a teenager, a child herself, who discovers she is pregnant just days before Hurricane Katrina hits. Patrick said he liked this book but I'm willing to admit I did not...maybe I need more hope and happiness but not as bad as the characters that populate this book. I really wanted something GOOD to happen to any of them but, as you may guess, it does not happen.
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