Wreck by Catherine Newman

 genre: contemporary fiction

Rocky’s way of looking at the world is centered in her fierce love of her children. She loves her husband, yes, and her elderly father that has come to live at their home following the passing of her mother - but her children have a vice grip on her heart. So when what feels like a random accident suddenly isn’t and when a weird rash is maybe more than that, poor Rocky’s emotional bandwidth is stretched to its actual limit.

Here is why I loved this book: Rocky is living at my stage of life. I feel so much of what she feels down in my marrow, about being in a messy female body, about being a mom and a wife and a daughter. And she’s so very funny sometimes. I just wasn’t disappointed, not in any way. If you loved Sandwhich like I did, I bet you’ll love this too.