The People We Keep
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Happy Saturday!๐
Itโs finally a sunny day here in our neck of North Dakota. I feel like itโs been over a month since we seen the sun for more than a day. Today I am just relaxing and hopefully getting all the laundry caught up. Try not to be jealous of my overly exciting weekend!๐
Iโm currently reading The People We Keep with @mamas_top_shelf and @bookmarksandcaffeine and Iโm thoroughly invested in the story. From the very beginning this story brings the emotions, and all I want to do is dive into this book and hug April. Her character has had me cheering for her from the very first page and hasnโt let go yet.
Right now Iโm about halfway through an intimate coming of age story, and I cannot wait to discuss some opinions I have about at this point in the book with my reading buddies.
๐ฆ๐๐ป๐ผ๐ฝ๐๐ถ๐: Little River, New York, 1994: April Sawicki is living in a motorless motorhome that her father won in a poker game. Failing out of school, picking up shifts at a local diner, sheโs left fending for herself in a town where sheโs never quite felt at home. When she โborrowsโ her neighborโs car to perform at an open mic night, she realizes her life could be much bigger than where she came from. After a fight with her dad, April packs her stuff and leaves for good, setting off on a journey to find a life thatโs all hers.
Driving without a chosen destination, she stops to rest in Ithaca. Her only plan is to survive, but as she looks for work, she finds a kindred sense of belonging at Cafe Decadence, the local coffee shop. Still, somehow, it doesnโt make sense to her that life could be this easy. The more she falls in love with her friends in Ithaca, the more she canโt shake the feeling that sheโll hurt them the way sheโs been hurt.
๐ฌ ๐๐จ๐ฐ ๐๐ซ๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐๐๐ค๐๐ง๐? ๐ ๐ค๐ง๐จ๐ฐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ ๐จ๐ ๐ฒ๐๐๐ซ ๐๐๐ง ๐ ๐๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐๐ญ๐ญ๐ฒ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐ฌ๐๐ฎ๐ฅ ๐ฌ๐จ ๐ฌ๐๐ง๐๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ก๐ฎ๐ ๐ฌ ๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ฌ๐ ๐ฐ๐ก๐จ ๐ง๐๐๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ฆ.
