Title: My kind of people

Author: Lisa Duffy

Type: Fiction

Published: 2020

Pages: 352

Lisa Duffy depicts the events of the story in the book beautifully, makes the reader feel what the character is feeling no matter how uncomfortable it is..

Summary:

Sky is a little girl who was abandoned at a fire station as a baby, by the age of 10 she has experienced so much pain and confusion. She was adopted by a beautiful couple who unfortunately died in a car crash. The problem is she has to go back into the system at an age where she understands what is going on around her, she is adopted by her late father’s bestfriend Leo.

Leo struggles between being a parent to Sky and grieving the death of his friend. Leo is a married man who’s never thought of having children, this new child now causes problems for his partner because it was never part of the plan to have children. Leo’s husband Xavier seems to be the one with the most issues, because Leo loves Sky but doesn’t understand why his friend made him her guardian without letting him know. Leo relates to Sky.

Maggie, Sky’s fourth grade teacher, also lives on Winding Way, along with her husband, Pete, and her best friend, the cranky school nurse, Agnes. There’s also the lovable Joe, who’s recently had an injury leaving him home all the time. And I can’t forget Frankie, Sky’s best friend. When Agnes, the island’s resident busybody, invites Sky’s maternal grandmother, whom she has never really known, to stay on the island, it causes a great deal of friction among longtime friends and neighbors,

I found this to be predictable and had guessed some of the things that weren’t apparent to the characters until the end and there were a couple of things that felt a little dramatic. Having said that, it’s a lovely story reflecting on what brings people together or back together, sometimes back to the people they were and what home really means. I have to round up to 9/10 stars because these characters were “my kind of people.”

Community, love, tragedy, relationships, friendship, addiction, mental illness, family, hope, starting over, secrets, inappropriateness, and talent. This book has a little bit of everything. The characters are likable, flawed, relatable and have depth.

it is a definite must read.