HAND ME DOWN by Melanie Thorne

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Hand Me Down

Melanie Thorne

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One of the problems of having so many great books to share is that unfortunately, I oftentimes don’t get to finish them before it's time to post about them, as is the case with Melanie Thorne’s Hand Me Down, but what I have read so far is amazing. Thorne writes in the perspective of teenage Liz and about her family, and what happens when her mother chooses to love an ex-con and sends her daughter away, separating Liz from her sister Jaime.

As is the case with Liz in Hand Me Down, Melanie experienced some of the same things growing up and was asked to leave home at a young age. Like Liz, she was also separated from her younger sister at a time they needed one another most. It was that experience that sparked the book idea for Melanie and helped to her find truths and heal. 

Read on!

"A tough, tender, debut novel, in the tradition of Dorothy Allison and Janet Fitch, Hand Me Down is the unforgettable story of a girl who travels between California and Utah in search of her true family, having never been loved best of all."

Fourteen-year-old Elizabeth Reid has spent her life protecting her sister, Jaime, from their parents' cruel mistakes. Their father, who'd rather work the system than a job, pours every dollar into his many vices, denying his daughters the shoes and clothing they need. Their mother, once a loving parent, is going through a post-post-adolescent rebellious streak and finds love with a dangerous ex-con. When she chooses starting a new family over raising her first-born girls, Elizabeth and Jaime are separated and forced to rely on the begrudging kindness of increasingly distant relatives.

A string of broken promises that begins with Liz's mother swearing, "I would never hurt you, Liz. You're family," propels her between guest beds in two states searching for a safe home. All the while, Liz is burdened by her stake in a bleak pact with a deceitful adult: to tell the truth about the darkest of her circumstances will cost her the ability to shelter Jaime. As Liz spirals into the abyss of fear and shame that haunts her sleepless nights, can she break free from her bonds in time to fight for her life?

Thorne writes with a command of language that is at once affecting and enticing. Her debut is the kind of voice-driven reading experience fiction lovers crave.

If you’d like to enter to win a copy of Hand Me Down, tell me if there is something in your closet that is a hand-me-down that you love that you wear today. 

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