The Women Who Raised Me by Victoria Rowell

This blog is about The Women Who Raised Me, a book by Victoria Rowell, published in 2008. A women who traveled through Massachusetts state foster system and yet still, managed to achieve many things in her life. In fact, she is still achieving those many things because, she's alive and well working as an actress and dancer. Thanks, she says to, all the women who raised her, like the title says, during her childhood she went through several families all of whom influenced her, and gave her what she needed to succeed. The book was interesting. I have rather liked what I've read so far. My mother did not like it. She was given the copy by friends, and started it over winter break. She never finished it though... She said it was a story she had heard a million times before. She prefers happy ending fiction. Why Mama even started it is a mystery. I disagree, no two stories are exactly the same. All stories have flashes of hope, failure, change and chance. That's why we read. To see the love and obstacles people go through for it. They a flashes into other possible live for us, the reader. Which is why I read, to look in another world. Victoria Rowell has such an honest voice, that the story compels me to continue. She tells everything, so it seems. As the reader I really felt for the little girl who was given up by her mentally unstable mother, and taken away by the state. The book in my eyes was very well done.