See You At Harry's

This week I read See You At Harry's by Jo Knowles. I had really high expectations for this book, because apparently everybody loves it and it makes them cry. It wasn't that sad for me, but still a really great (and a really sad) book. I won't give away too much, but basically it's about a twelve- year -old girl named Fern who is trying to cope with all of the things going on in her life, including her (kind of hilarious) dad. It follows a lot of different stuff going on in her life, one in particular very tragic, and has her and the rest of her family trying to move on from it. I know my description might sound kind of boring, but this was a really fast-paced and good book; I couldn't even put it down. It is really sad and you definitely connect to a lot of the characters in the book, even the ones that you don't like at first. Even though it's really depressing, I would say that the overall message of the book is positive; that does not mean it's not sad- it is. I would recommend this book to pretty much everybody in our class, despite your age and gender. I would call the genre realistic fiction- is that even a genre? Even though I would call it realistic fiction, I would definitely encourage people who read all sorts of different genres to try this book- believe me, it's really good, you won't be disappointed.