Winter Light

Winter Light

By Martha Engber

Genre:-YA-Coming of Age

Running Time:-7hrs and 58minutes

Publisher:-Vine Leaves Press

Blurb:-Fifteen-year-old Mary Donahue of suburban Chicago is a kid on the cusp of failure during the brutal blizzard winter of 1978-79, the end of a hard luck, hard rock era sunk in the cynical aftermath of the Vietnam War.

 Though a smart, beautiful kid, she's a motherless girl raised by an uneducated, alcoholic father within an extended family of alcoholics and addicts. Aware that she's sinking, she's desperate to save herself and so reaches out to an unlikely source, Kathleen, a nice, normal kid from English class.

 But when the real storm hits, the full force of a harsh adult world almost buries Mary. Only then does she learn that the only difference between life and death is knowing when to grasp an extended hand.

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My Review:-I thought the narrator told the story well.  Mary's life isn't an easy one, her mother died when she was young, her dad drinks all the time, Danny is trying to get into art school and her two older brothers have left home. Mary isn't doing what she should be doing, going to school and staying out of trouble, she's hanging out at parties and doing work, just so she can put food on the table, pay the bills and look after her family, something her dad should be doing, but all he thinks about is drinking. Kathleen is the opposite to Mary, yet they start to get on and slowly become friends. 

It's hard to believe that there is still children/young adult still going through what Mary has went through, especial the way thing are at the moment in the world.