I read A LOT. This book took me on an emotional journey that I will never forget. Truly the best book I’ve read in a decade. I would like to befriend the author! Incredible.

Real, wishful, touching, extraordinary in its sensitivity. I love this story more than anything I have read in a long time.

Wonderful characters - it was the kind of book that makes me sad as I am nearing the end, because I don’t want to leave the characters. The book also prompted the most in-depth and meaning conversation our book club has had in over ten years of meeting!

Good read. Great characters. I did not expect to like it from the title. Really enjoyed the time I spent with this book.

Rambled along

Solid story, enjoyable plot and characters but the ending wrapped too quickly.

Gentle page turner with sweet message wrapped in literature.

Loved this book. I wanted it to go on forever…

I was immediately enraptured by these raw, engaging. shattered and broken but not beyond repair group of women, the main characters and the emotionally powerful and profound confessions and life stories these complex and dynamic and eloquent characters share. Throughout the book I had a plethora of emotional reactions and was genuinely invested in each individual giving an overwhelming amount of reflection into their plights, my own life and would intentionally take a moment the further philosophize all the internal questions I had about the characters, their situations and what I would do and how I would behave if faced with the same predicament because as they say in the book there’s a fine line between those who are in prison for committing felonies and those who are on the outs. We could all be where these characters have landed given the same set of choices and trajectory of our lives. Bookie reminds us to be compassion and to give grace, an infinite and endless amount of grace to those who are suffering and paying the price for their actions. This is the profound message that sits still with me and will for the rest of my life. What a beautiful and brilliantly written work of art. I thoroughly adored this book and everything about it. So so well done!

Captivating, educating, tender, humanity… all those things wrapped up with a bow. I’m critical, but this is so well-written, to steal from Toni Morrison: the words don’t sweat.