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The Barefoot Child
Michelle Dixon
Publication Date: January 28th, 2025
The Book Guild
344 Pages
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Genres: Fiction | General | Literary
Even though the book is very dark Jess and Lisa won my heart. This was a very emotional read and having come from a fractured family with substance abuse issues myself I could certainly relate to Jess and what she went through as a young child, and as crazy as it was it was very realistic.
I love that we got two points of view, from Jess and her mother Lisa. The author did an amazing job writing from the point of view of a child and an abused woman who suffers from alcoholism, addiction and mental health issues and is trying to get her life back on track. Both women were courageous, and I was cheering them on throughout the story. It’s also about forgiveness, of ourselves and others.
What started as a powerful and hard-hitting tragic tale turned into me cheering them on, and I was so proud of them both. Graphic, gritty, and unflinching in its telling, this book is a heartbreaking story of addiction, abuse, and atonement that I will be thinking about for a long time. Suffice it to say that this book gave me all the feels.
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the Advance Readers Copy.
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