Sometimes something in your life is too painful
to deal with.
Sometimes you can only deal with it by looking
at your life through someone else’s eyes.
That’s the case for the protagonist … in
this week’s Pick.
Salamanca Tree Hiddle—Sal for short—is
on a road trip with her grandparents.
She’s going to Idaho to find her mother,
and along the way she tells a story.
That’s the first pleasure of Walk Two Moons
by Sharon Creech.
Instead of getting one story, you get two.
You get the story Sal tells about her friend,
the curiously-uptight Phoebe Winterbottom,
and you get Sal’s story—about coming to
terms with her mother’s departure, and about
learning how to live again.
The second pleasure of this book is that it
has a little something to offer everyone.
If you’re into stories about supernaturally-wonderful
mothers, it has that.
If you’re into books about journeys, it’s
definitely got journeys.
If you’re into books about first loves,
life and death, or learning to walk a mile
in someone else’s moccasins … it’s got
all that, too.
Did I mention this book is also a mystery?
I won’t give anything away.
The surprise of the ending is definitely the
third pleasure of this story.
But one thing that’s not mysterious about
Walk Two Moons is that its sweetness and beauty
will stick with you long after you read the
last page.
