A heartbreaking, yet uplifting story of love is #3 for 2015 ~ The Sound of Us by Sarah Willis. This is my second novel by Sarah Willis & I really enjoy her prose. She paints very vivid pictures of her characters and makes me like, dislike, question and wonder about the things life throws at us. This particular story starts with a wrong number and ends with a single woman, in the middle of grieving for her dead twin, becoming a very unlikely foster parent. It's interesting because as she changes, so do her relationships. That aspect isn't addressed in the story, but I wonder about it. Did Willis make that vague on purpose? What did she want us to take from that? I took that life is always changing and with it are both good and bad. We ultimately have to follow what makes us happy.
I also enjoyed the setting ~ as Alice lived in Cleveland Heights & Mentor is also mentioned. It's rather fun to see places I know show up in a piece of fiction.
fl:The girl lying on the exam table is fourteen and bone thin, elbows and knees like pipe fittings. ll: Some people say I saved Larissa. But they've got it wrong.
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