Rating: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
Before, I didn’t know about perspective. Now I know it can change how you see the whole world.
This was a beautifully written story! I didn’t realize until the end that this was a rendition of the author’s life as a little girl. I loved the main character, Ruthie Mizrahi. It’s the 1960’s and Ruthie is a young Cuban-Jewish immigrant girl adjusting to her new life in New York City. It’s been hard for her family to learn the customs of the big city and on one dark night, their lives are changed forever…a horrific car accident leaves Ruthie in a body cast and confined her to her bed for a long recovery.
This is the story of a young girl who learns to love in darkest of times and how her heart can go from being stone cold to growing larger. She teaches us how fragile life can really be and no matter what your circumstances happen to be, there is always something to look forward to. Ruthie’s hope was to recover and learn to walk again as well as forgiving the person who had caused the accident and her displacement being confined to her bed for almost a whole year.
This moment in their lives seems to have brought many people together and closer to Ruthie. The story was moving and very well written. I felt myself rooting for Ruthie and almost crying with her at times. She is a tough gal, who although fell into the darkness, it didn’t take long for someone to show her the light again. She let their rays of sunshine warm her heart and from there, Ruthie spread the rays onto others.
A Simple Taste for Reading 