No Good Asking; Fran Kimmel

TITLE: No Good Asking

AUTHOR: Fran Kimmel

PUBLISHER: ECW Press

PUB. YEAR: 2018

SETTING:  Canada
FORMAT:  - print

RATING: 4.5/5 stars

No Good Asking is a quiet yet moving story, set in rural Canada about the power to heal the human spirit.

Hannah is an 11 year old girl whose mother has died. She was left living with her mother's abusive ex-boyfriend.  As the story opens she is spotted walking on a rural snowy road on a cold December night and appears bloodied.

Eric Nyland is in law enforcement, he spots her, rescues her and brings her home to stay with his family: wife Ellie, son Daniel 14 and autistic son Sammy, age 5, until other arrangements can be made.  Hannah's stay initially places undue stresses on this already troubled family, but as days pass her presence and positive attitude brings about subtle changes which may be just what this family needs to heal.

Told from the POV of Eric, Ellie, Daniel and Hannah, No Good Asking is a beautifully written story about kindness and its power to transform and heal.  Kindness is something the world needs more of these days. I thought this was a beautiful book.

First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday Intros - No Good Asking; Fran Kimmel

Each Tuesday, Vicki, from I’d Rather Be At The Beach hosts First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday Intros where  readers post the opening paragraph (sometime two) of a book that they are reading or plan to read.

No Good Asking; Fran Kimmel

ECW Press - 2018

One

They All Come From Somewhere

Friday, December 20

"From a distance, it looked like a small smear of blood on a white blanket.  Perhaps a wounded coyote, staggering along the road in the relentless wind.  Eric drove on, a flurry of white surrounding his car, keeping to the faint tracks he'd made the day before.  As he drew nearer, the speck transformed into a withered old man, startling him with legs, arms, torso bent into a gale.  But it was worse yet.  He finally recognized the shape as a young girl.  People didn't walk along his road, not out here in the middle of nowhere.  Not a girl, certainly not in this weather."

Does this one appeal to you?  I'm looking forward to beginning this one soon.