Title: Durable Through It All
Product review: A coming of age story full of the pain and confusion of adolescence.Twelve-year-old Katie lives with her older sister Diane and widowed father. The recent loss of her mother, the upcoming move to a new Army base, and Diane's romance with Dickie Mac coincide with Katie's sometime reluctant loss of childhood.The writing is emotionally wrenching. "I fold up my pajama bottoms into a neat square. My mother gave them to me. They are too small, but I am running out of things she touched to put next to me." "I have started my period and I am alone...I lay my hand across my stomach, feel the outline of the belt. Just making sure. It's always that way with the biggest things: they never feel real. You have to keep on checking them forever."The contrast of child-to-adult thinking sears the story of a young girl who can't connect with her surviving, sometimes abusive, parent. She is left to find her own way. She is durable.
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