Book Review: Just Fine Thank You

 

Just Fine Thank You

Growing Up with Family Secrets (Blood, Sex and Tears Book 1)

by Evelyn Leite

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Biographies & Memoirs  |  Women's Fiction 

Pub Date 20 Dec 2019

I am reviewing a copy of Just Fine Thank You through BooksGoSocial and Netgalley:

Evelyn Jones Leite was born in South Dakota at a time when America was reeling from a dust bowl, depression and a Second World War.  Evelyn lived with with Mamma, Edith Jones, a socialite who marries her Daddy, a broke but charming southerner, Lon Jones.

What she doesn’t know at the time is the Daddy she loves so much, drinks way to much.  His Dr Jekyll and Mrs Hyde attitude breaks her heart way to much.

At the age of 5, she moves from a log cabin on a hilltop deep in the woods where she hears mountain lions, to a small town where she lives by a Morgue there where she encounters her first sexual pervert.

During the Second World War the family is hugely impacted by blackouts, poverty and rations.

Mamma who is often bedridden is a special challenge forcing Evelyn to tend to her younger brothers.  She adores her older brother Ted completely despite the fact he is often mean to her.  She begs for his attention in ways that are both subtle and overt.

At six her Daddy gives away her precious dog and moves his family to a farm on orders from her mother’s wealthy father.  While on the farm Evelyn experiences neglect, a pedophiliac hired man, mind rape and, yet-there are big family happy times when relatives swarm the farm and bring mountains of food.

Evelyn Leite’s true story of growing up in a turbulent family during the 40s and 50s , captures the readers emotions by feeling the gamut of emotions she went through as a child.  Confusion and despair, sorrow and tears, then unexplainable hope and optimism.

I give Just Fine Thank you five out of five stars!

Happy Reading!