This book is definitely an easy read. (I actually read it while I’m inside a bookstore. oohh. My apologies to its author.)
Anyway, it’s about a single mom and her 15 year old daughter and their exchange of short notes posted on their refrigerator door. Every page contains their notes about anything from list of must buys, to Claire’s attempt to tell her mom her love stories, to Claire’s hours and hours of waiting for her so busy doctor mom, her sleepovers with her classmates and, at the last pages of their notes, Claire’s feelings for her dying mother.
This book actually made me all tear jerky while I’m burying myself between the shelves of that bookstore. Geeeezz.. I know this is just a third grader book, but I am really soft when it comes to a mother and daughter relationship. It just showed me the sad reality of an american lifestyle, where a working mom barely sees her children. And being so close to my mom, I feel pity for those who didn’t have the chance to have an intimate moment with the first woman who loved them.
“the hand that rocks the cradle, rocks the world”. Indeed.
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