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kathrynfit said: Booklist Starred Review, February 2009)
-What all readers will appreciate are the beautiful portraits of the characters, young and old, and the way the story delicately weaves its seaside setting into the story. Groovy’s first-person narrative sensitively shows both her strength and her uncertainty, and in the end readers will understand when she finally embraces what she knows to be true: “You gotta forgive.”
A Best New Book listed by Scholastic’s Instructor Magazine:
“Fitzmaurice’s lovely debut has all the hallmarks of a classic.”
In this daring, emotionally complex story, both Groovy and Frankie try to figure out how to accept people, especially parents, for who they are without abandoning their own needs and their own developing notions of right and wrong. As in real life, not everything is resolved in the end, and many questions remain, but things have achieved a fragile balance, rather like the ingredients in a delicate sauce. Kirkus Reviews, January, 2009)
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