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The Sound of Gravel by Ruth Wariner
5.0

If you want a book to give you warm fuzzies, rainbows, sunshine and happy childhoods, this is NOT the book for you.

If you want a strong dose of despair, feelings of hopelessness and fury, horror and tragedy after tragedy, I would highly recommend this book.

CW galore. Childhood sexual, emotional, and physical abuse, domestic violence, death, neglect, abandonment, abuse of children with disability. I could go on, but you get the picture.

This book is so horrifyingly tragic, I absolutely sobbed through multiple sections in it.

I’m so grateful that I got a tiny sliver of insight into the author’s happiness at the end of the book. What a SURVIVOR. What a hero!

I think this woman’s, this family’s, story will stick with me forever. And I will forever “count my blessings” I haven’t had to live that life.