Garden Of Angeles By Lurlene McDaniel

Summary:
It is 1974 and the country is still struggling to come to terms with the Vietnam War. In the small town of Conners, Georgia, Darcy has just started high school, her older sister Adel goes to weekend dances at the local Army base, and their mother tends her beautiful garden–the biggest and best in town. But Darcy’s world is soon changed forever when her mother goes to Atlanta for tests. The diagnosis is not good–breast cancer. There is so much Darcy wants to talk to her mother about: the war and what happened to the soldiers who were there; the feelings she is having for the new (and troubled) boy in school. But she can’t. So she finds solace in her mother’s garden. There she can help the flowers her mother planted bloom.



My Thoughts:
I discovered Lurlene McDaniel when i was in middle school and i fell in love with her work, in fact definitely expect some more reviews for her books. This one specifically will bring tears to your eyes, the struggles the main character has to go through in this book is deeply saddening, in fact i recommend this one to everyone. The romance in it is short and a bit disappointing but still sufficient enough that you'll love it. The ending i find was a bit unexpected.