A review by tfredrick
Daughter by Jane Shemilt

2.0

I really wanted to like this book, but in the end, I was just angry. It turns out that the caring, really great pediatrician mom who raises three kids while working at a clinic for the uninsured is actually a terrible mom because ... she works. There was the possibility in the book of interesting messages about class--not assuming that people are terrible parents because they are poor--and about how we don't know teens' internal lives as well as we think, but in the end, these messages got muddied and buried under the idea that [SPOILER AHEAD] pregnant and stealing drugs at 15 is the healthier lifestyle for a teen girl because at least the adult man who got you pregnant and had you steal the drugs cares about family and would never go to work all day.