Amazing Grace Adams

November 12, 2024 /

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.

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