Tin Camp Road

This is a heartfelt story of a mom just trying to do her best. It's raw and relatable. Our POV is a single mom just barely scraping by. Every disappointment expressed by her daughter, who is her whole world, hits you like a punch.

For most of the book, I was pretty sure it would end poorly for our POV character and her daughter. No prince swoops in to save them, no rich uncle appears, no unicorn arrives. Well, a better off uncle does appear, but the mom chooses to struggle and scrape by because she sees that the kindness they offer really is a different kind of prison and not what she wants. What happens, then? Well, she is still making it work, somehow, by getting up every day and trying. And, I think they will be alright. There's a huge surprise in the last sentence of the book!

Audiobook well narrated (not an option on editions)