Book Review: ALL WE HAD by Annie Weatherwax
FACTS ABOUT THE BOOK Title: All We Had Author: Annie Weatherwax Publisher: Simon and Schuster US Price: $16.00 Pages: 257 Genre: Novel (Poverty, Mother-Sister, Drama) Year: 2014 BACK OF THE BOOK (warning! this is more a summary of the whole book than a teaser - it bascially spoilers almost the whole story) Source: Amazon Thirteen-year-old Ruthie Carmichael and her mother, Rita, share a powerful bond. Always teetering on the edge of poverty, they are sustained by their grit, humor, and love for each other. When they take to the highway in search of the American Dream, they end up in Fat River, New York, where Rita finally lands a steady job at the local diner. Peter Pam, the diner's transgender waitress; Dotty and Hank Hanson, the elderly owners of the hardware store battling for survival in the Walmart era; and Miss Frankfurt, the stern but caring principal of the high school, form Ruthie and Rita's...