Wednesday, July 28, 2010

I want it Wednesday


I stumbled across this book today while searching Amazon. This book takes place in 1926, but I wanted to feature it on Wednesday instead of Historical Fiction Friday.

Summary: At fifteen, Iris is a hobo of sorts -- no home, no family, no direction. After her mother’s early death, Iris’s father focuses on big plans for his new shoe stores and his latest girlfriend, and has no time for his daughter. Unbeknownst to her, he hires Iris out as housekeeper and companion for a country doctor’s elderly mother. Suddenly Iris is alone, stuck in gritty rural Missouri, too far from her only friend Leroy and too close to a tenant farmer, Cecil Deets, who menaces the neighbors and, Iris suspects, his own daughter.

Iris is buoyed by the warmth and understanding the doctor and his mother show her, but just as she starts to break out of her shell, tragedy strikes. Iris must find the guts and cunning to take aim at the devil incarnate and discover if she is really as helpless—or as hopeless—as she once believed.


1 comment:

Katrina L. Burchett said...

I found out about this one on goodreads yesterday. It is now saved in my Amazon cart :)