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A review by ovenbird_reads
Rush Home Road by Lori Lansens
4.0
While many books have made me ache while confronting the sorrow and the beauty of the world, rarely do books make me cry openly and fully. This book did that. Lansens has written a heartbreaking story of loss and redemption with just enough love for the reader to grasp onto like a raft in turbulent water. The protagonist Addy Shadd draws you into her world and, as if you are a child like Sharla yourself, teaches you the value of forgiveness as well as "how to live simply and simply live."
Lansens infuses her book with vivid scents--pie crusts, strawberries warm in the summer sun, sweat, death, decay, and the algae green smell of Lake Erie. The world she fashions is so close you can almost taste it. She brings you to the brink of human cruelty only to pull back into love--love that is flawed, human, often tragic, but nonetheless love that heals.
I would recommend this to anyone who has ever wondered how to get home.
Lansens infuses her book with vivid scents--pie crusts, strawberries warm in the summer sun, sweat, death, decay, and the algae green smell of Lake Erie. The world she fashions is so close you can almost taste it. She brings you to the brink of human cruelty only to pull back into love--love that is flawed, human, often tragic, but nonetheless love that heals.
I would recommend this to anyone who has ever wondered how to get home.