• Laura, a 15 year old girl trying to navigate life as a teenager, with all the emotions and confusion that comes with it.
• April, a 40 year old divorce’, VBS and math teacher, and Laura’s mother, who has become stuck in a very comfortable and very lonely rut.
• Paul, a 20 something local celebrity home after heart-break in NYC, who id hiding out in his childhood bedroom and the bottom of a bottle
• Ben, a young boy also trying to figure out his place in the world; unfortunately for Ben, that place is even more confusion with the addition of his Foster brother, DeShawn.
Another Life looks at small town life and the interconnected- and disconnectedness of the people that live there.
There were many, many issues that were brought up in this novel, all great points of discussion but ultimately these issues were just used as props and most weren’t dealt with in any depth. And wow, lots of church, pastor, vacation bible school stuff. I mean LOTS!
There were several other side characters whose stories were left without any type of resolution, DeShawn and Bethany and Paul and even Ben’s stories just petered out as the plot brought April and Laura back to each other and out of the small town.
I feel that there were too many characters, not enough backstory and too many plot arcs that petered out.
Thank you to Edelweiss for the e-Arc in exchange for my honest opinion.
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