danamarie33 's review for:

The Sound of Gravel by Ruth Wariner

5.0

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This book was a bit slow to grab my attention but once I got a few chapters in, I couldn't put it down. Mainly because as a mother I kept reading in the hopes that her mother would at some point finally do right by her children. I appreciated the author not approaching this with any self pity and what broke my heart the most was knowing that any child would suffer like this, but maintain some level of a childhood for herself and her siblings. It's hard to read at times, but well worth the read.