The Girls

The Girls is an extraordinary and heart-breaking book that really gets you to appreciate the things you have in life. Lori Lansens does an excellent job really showing difficulties the girls go though. Within the first page the reader sees the suffering and pain the girls go though. Lori Lansens beautiful writes the chapters with points of view from Ruby and Rose. Throughout the chapters you see utterly compelling bits of poetry such as “I have never looked into my sister’s eyes. I have never bathed alone. I have never stood in the grass at night and raised my arms to a beguiling moon. I’ve never used an airplane bathroom. Or worn a hat. Or been kissed like that. I’ve never driven a car. Or slept though the night. Never a private talk. Or a solo walk. I’ve never climbed a tree. Or faded in a crowd. So many things I’ve never done, but oh, how I’ve been loved. And, if such things were to be, I’d live a thousand lives as me, to be loved exponentially.”

I would recommend this book to anyone loves books about kindness, love, and the mishaps and miracles of life. This book is perfect for anyone loves a heartrending but, blissful story filled poetry and different views on same topic. I would say that this book is defiantly in my top five favorite books because the book is so well written and intriguing.

– Brittany