Amazing Grace Adams
Amazing Grace Adams ~ Fran Littlewood
Grace is having a crappy day. She is rushing to pick up a cake for her daughter’s 16th birthday party, desperate to connect and make up after a horrible fight. She is stuck in stalled traffic on a very hot day, and gets more and more upset, and decides to desert her car in the middle of the street, and walk to the bakery, and then to the party at her estranged husband’s house.
Amazing Grace Adams follows Grace across town in her desperate journey, and along the way we learn of her past life, like when she and her husband, Ben, met at a polyglot competition, hooked up, got pregnant and then married. We learn of her relationship with her daughter, and the fight that they had. The day of the traffic jam, Grace hits road block after road block. She deals with some of these road blocks well, and others not so much.
I liked Grace. I felt for her peri-menopausal misery, she is emotional and angry and hot. She is sometimes a problematic character, but in the end I was glad for the time I spent with her. Recommended.
22 Comments
Nicole MacPherson
I liked this book a lot – and I thought the reveal was excellent!
J
Agreed!
Kyria @ Travel Spot
I also enjoyed this book; it was a quick and easy read and you kind of feel for her, as she keeps doing embarrasing things over and over!
J
I totally felt for her!
Jenny
Ha, this sounds good- and I like the cover : )
J
Yeah, she’s frustrated and pissed off for sure.
AC
Sounds like one of those bad dreams in which you can’t get to where you are going.
J
Yes, very much like that!
Ernie
This reminds me of the movie when the man gets out of his car in a traffic jam and his life unravels from there. I just googled it. It’s called Falling Down. I do love the cover and it sounds good.
J
I remember that movie, though I don’t think I’ve seen it. But it does sound similar for sure.
Maya
I’m NOT going to put this on my list… Because, Jules, I can’t put everything on my list! 🙂 I think it’s the first one this month I haven’t wanted to read right away.
(It sounds fine, but I’m being petty and thinking well Jenna as in Jenna Bush–nope.)
J
I’m glad I finally got one that you don’t want to read! Why? I don’t know, it just makes me feel accomplished somehow. Yeah, Jenna Bush. Who knew?
Lisa's Yarns
I also really enjoyed this book! It’s nice to see a perimenopausal protagonist! That isn’t a character we see on the pages all that much!
J
Yeah, I really liked that aspect of it!
Tobia | craftaliciousme
I havent heard about this book and I am with maya – I will not add it to my list. There is too much on there and I have a whol enother 15 books coming my ways..
J
LOL, yeah, we’re not even half way through the month, are we?
Margaret
With the traffic around here, I’ve been tempted to emulate Grace and just walk!
J
Yeah, I get it too!
Jamie
I really enjoyed this one!
J
Yeah, it was a good read!
Meike
Can’t beat the cover. That’s how I sometimes feel. She sounds like a relatable person.
NGS
Guess who DNFed this? This lady here! We’ll put this in the GET IT TOGETHER WOMAN genre that I do not have the patience to deal with.