Fighting Words

I had no idea what I was getting into when I picked up this book to read, solely because it was an award winner. It took me a while to read this little book because some days I just couldn't. While, after finishing it, I think it was incredibly done and tells such an important story... I do not know when I should be recommended to my daughter. I borrowed it for my eBook reader, but I'd buy it if the right price came along because it is a worthy read. A hard read, but necessary. Overall, there is nothing too revealing in the telling, but more of an if you know, then you understand its essence. But again, I don't know when this will be an appropriate read. I think this is absolutely a book that could be recommended during a time of healing and therapy, however, I think it should also be recommended before anything has the opportunity to happen. But then what innocence is lost by reading it before “you know” of such things. Either way, while I struggle with my own questions of timing, this book is needed and I hope those that need it, find it at exactly the right moment.