A review by kakrucke
Ninth Ward by Jewell Parker Rhodes

3.0

I want to love this book. And I did like it. The reason it doesn't get more stars from me is that there are just too many things to have to suspend disbelief about. Hurricane Katrina is already a pretty overwhelming topic--even though it's completely real it still calls upon the reader to have to adjust their frame of reality. Add to that the fact that the main character and her elderly loved one can communicate with ghosts. And then a plot with too many coincidences (in one week a pretty solitary child gets two true friends and a dog and a hurricane?). It feels like too much for a children's book. But when I gave in and suspended disbelief, it was quite moving.