I can’t remember ever having cried so much during a book as I did with this one, but I didn’t feel manipulated or that Ginny Rorby was playing with my emotions. I couldn’t breathe through the last half of this book, and I could barely even see.
I feel like I need a thesaurus to even correctly assign my emotional states. This book made me something of an emotional train-wreck. If you know me at all, you know that I love a gut-wrenching story, one that breaks your heart and hollows you out. This chance meeting changes all of their lives.Īll I can say is “Wow”. Her mother is full of excuses, everything from “It’ll make you lazy so that you won’t be able to read lips to understand people who can’t sign,” to “It’ll show everyone that you’re disabled and they’ll pity you.” So, needless to say, Joey is isolated and largely ignored by people who aren’t able to communicate with her, until she meets Charlie, an elderly man who lives nearby and his chimpanzee, Sukari. Thirteen year old Joey is almost completely deaf and struggles to read lips in a world of hearing people because her mother refuses to allow her to learn sign language. I read a preview chapter on B&N.com and when that was AMAZING, I ordered a copy. “Hurt Go Happy” on the other hand, I’d never even heard of, and the premise interested me, so I decided to use it, sight-unseen. I’d read the other two books, and as much as I love them both, decided against using them as they are both so popular and well-known.
The person that was chosen as my recipient, Kellee, chose “The Giver” by Lois Lowry, “The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins, and “Hurt Go Happy” by Ginny Rorby.
For one of the rounds, we each chose three favorite books for the bookmark maker to choose from. In one of the Goodreads groups I’m in, we do a bookmark swap with other members. Her most recent novel, Like Dust, I Rise, is a Coming of Age novel set in Texas during the Dust Bowl.
Ginny is a past director of the Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference. Ginny is the author 6 novels for Middle Grade and Young Adults readers: Freeing Finch, How to Speak Dolphin, Lost in the River of Grass, winner of the 2012 / 2013 Sunshine State Young Readers Award Hurt Go Happy, winner of the 2008 American Library Association’s Schneider Family Book Award. She now lives on the chilly coast of northern California. Her goal, after wrapping up her flying career and her graduate studies, was to move someplace where she would never be hot again. She went on to receive an MFA in Creative Writing from Florida International University. Midway through that career, she enrolled in the University of Miami to pursue an undergraduate degree in biology, graduated and changed direction again. Ginny Rorby was raised in Winter Park, Florida, and lived in Miami during her career as a Pan American flight attendant.
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