This another book from superstar friend E! E has so many great books, and is a great writer too! You can visit her here.
Walk Two Moons is fascinating in its attempt to articulate the inexplicable decisions of grown-ups. Why would your mother pick up and leave you if she loves you? Why do some parents leave and others come back? How do we recover from loss?
Sal is driving to Lewiston, Idaho with her grandparents. She wants to get there before her mother's birthday, believing that she might be able to bring her mother home. While tracing her mother's path across the country and trying to put herself in her mother's place, Sal tells Gram and Gramps the story of her friend Phoebe. (Phoebe's story is like Sal's, with the exception of a few critical details.) This is a story about learning to see through the hurt and the annoyance to really understand someone else's pain or fear-- profound stuff for a little book.
Walk Two Moons strikes me as very honest. Here, as in life, there are all kinds of love and all kinds of relationships, not all of them easy to navigate or explain. It may have been over my head as a kid, but there are readers who will welcome this book based on personal experience.
The book has plenty of mysterious elements, but they are not bound together; tangents of plot spring all over the place, in unexpected directions. It's not clear what's material to the plot; things just happen right and left. The word choice and narration are colorful and fun; you don't have a sense of where it's headed, but it's fun to be along for the ride.
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