They are sassy and rude to each other at times, but when push comes to shove they have each others’ backs. A clean simple answer to make everything better immediately.Īnother key relationship is with her best friend.
G-baby’s plan to offer herself for a transfusion is exactly the kind of thinking I would expect from a child. I remember being in high school and having an unrealistic plan as a back-up if my mother died. She is also teetering on the world of adults, and recognizes they speak in a subtext she doesn’t always understand – she doesn’t want to be a baby or a little little girl, anymore but still needs the assurance from the adults in her life. The need to be accepted and the overwhelming responsibility for a younger sister are both aptly captured. I love the deep POV revealing the complicated feelings G-baby is wading through. When the description tells me upfront a young child will be sick, I can pretty much guess it will be a tear jerker. I love the title of this book and the cover art for Love Like Sky is beautiful. She knows Peaches can be strong again if she can only see that their family’s love for her really is like sky. Suddenly, Mama and Daddy are arguing like they did before the divorce, and even the doctors at the hospital don’t know how to help Peaches get better. G-baby is so preoccupied with earning Tangie’s approval that she isn’t there for her own little sister when she needs her most. G-baby misses her best friend back in Atlanta, and is crushed that her glamorous new stepsister, Tangie, wants nothing to do with her. They live with Mama and Frank out in the suburbs, and they haven’t seen their real daddy much since he married Millicent. G-baby and her younger sister, Peaches, are still getting used to their “blended-up” family. “Well that’s the kind of love Daddy and Mama got for us, Peaches–love like sky.” But have you ever seen the sky run out? No matter how far we go?” “That’s why we gotta go to the gas station.” If you keep driving and driving, gas will run out, right?” “How is it then?” Peaches asked, turning on her stomach to face me.
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