Rocky Road is about a girl called Tess Dobson and her life from when she moved from San Antonio, Texas to Schenectady, New York. When they reach their brand new home Tess realizes that her apartment is a senior citizen complex! But she makes friends with the other people living there, including Winnie- an eccentric old lady. Tess’s mother has bipolar disorder and she also has a deaf brother named Jordan. Tess’s father was an alcoholic and gambler but Tess’s mother divorced him. Tess’s mother decides to make run an ice cream shop but Tess is doubtful about her buissness scheme. Would people want to buy ice cream in snowy Schenectady?
I think this book is sad because Tess’s mother doesn’t care about her disorder and just pretends that it isn’t there resulting in Tess caring after Jordan when she has depression outbreaks and she has to also take time off school to look after her mother as well.
I rate this book 3.9 because it doesn’t have a lot of dialogue and in some parts it has too much detail and others not enough. I recommend this book to people who like sad realistic fiction.
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