Housewife Blues and Chihuahua Stories

Book Info
ebook, 224 pages
Expected publication: February 17th 2015 by Dundurn Group
ISBN 1459728203 (ISBN13: 9781459728202)
other editions (2)
Source:Netgalley EARC

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BOOK SYNOPSIS

Is it possible to outrun your past? Fifteen-year-old Edie Fraser and her mother, Sydney, have been trying to do just that for five years. Now, things have gone from bad to worse. Not only has Edie had to move to another new school she's in a different country.
Sydney promises her that this is their chance at a fresh start, and Edie does her best to adjust to life in London, England, despite being targeted by the school bully. But when Sydney goes out to work the night shift and doesn't come home, Edie is terrified that the past has finally caught up with them.
Alone in a strange country, Edie is afraid to call the police for fear that she’ll be sent back to her abusive father. Determined to find her mother, but with no idea where to start, she must now face the most difficult decision of her life.

My Thoughts

15 year old Edie and her mother Sydney have been one step ahead of the father who abused his wife and child for the last time 5 years prior. Now in London it seems their luck at evading Edie's dad has run its course.

This book hits hard and fast on the topics of abuse, bullying, lives uprooted and torn apart and it never stops driving home the point that standing up for oneself is not the easiest road but it is always worth the trouble.

This was chock full of the pitfalls of being a teenager coupled with the fact that the one person that should have been the family protector instead was in fact what they needed protection from. With themes ranging from addressing abusive behavior to the bullying by fellow students this was a somewhat darker YA than normally choose to read.

[EArc from Netgalley in exchange for honest review]