Book description
Set in the Carolinas in the 1940s, The Road to Bittersweet is a beautifully written, evocative account of a young woman reckoning not just with the unforgiving landscape, but with the rocky emotional terrain that leads from innocence to wisdom.
For fourteen-year-old Wallis Ann Stamper and her family, life in…
Why read it?
1 author picked The Road to Bittersweet as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I love this book because I so closely relate to the main character, Wallis Ann.
The book begins with Wallis Ann and her family facing the threat of a flood. I’ve lived through more hurricanes than I can name. I completely understood Wallis feeling overshadowed by her beautiful, non-verbal sister, Laci. Like Wallis, I never felt pretty; I never felt noticed. I struggled to be seen. I struggled to be ok with myself, all the while working hard to be helpful, doing whatever I felt needed doing, but feeling invisible all the same.
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