It's funny how quickly these books get away from me. I have missed posting about a couple already.
This book is a romance! Not my cup of tea but here it is in my house so it gets read. It is hard for me to pass a book on to another without reading it. Perhaps I also get a perverse pleasure in describing the book in the reviews I make on bookcrossing (http://www.bookcrossing.com/mybookshelf/jlautner).
Gabrielle Hadley has recently moved to Florence, Arizona, and taken a job as a prison guard. She is supporting her one-year-old daughter while living in a single-wide trailer. Her ex-husband cares about her and wants to help more but Gabrielle refuses help beyond child support and the occasional visit. She wants to make it on her own.
Early on Gabrielle comes home from work, exhausted, and fixes dinner:
canned soup
frozen vegetables
I think we are meant to understand how poor she is and how determined.
She brings her lunch to work, and later the prisoner takes a look at it out in the desert (where he escaped and grabbed her purse):
turkey sandwich
potato chips
cookies
diet soda
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