~*Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore

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 5 out of 5 stars


Trigger warnings for rape,abuse, parental neglect and harassment. 


Early morning the day after Valentines day  fourteen year old Gloria Ramírez appears at pregnant Mary Rose Whitehead’s door broken, beaten and barely alive.  Mary Rose tells her daughter to call the police and in doing so the ugly side of Odessa and bringing her to Lockspur Lane where she meets a recent widow, a lost and lonely little girl  and an Avon selling housewife. Set in the 1970's this haunting tale of women claiming independence, racism and our ability to eventually find our way through the darkness and into the light.


The first time I read this novel it hit me really hard but upon a reread it was much easier for me. For me the thing that stands out the most in this novel s the found family among the women of Lockspur Lane.  

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