Maddie is a high school student living in a small town in Florida . She is dirt poor and just manages  just to keep her head above water.She has a rocky relationship with her mother and twin brother, Marcus and doesn’t know who her father is. When a horrible event leaves her bruised and shattered, she flees the small town for a better life.   I chose this book because I loved that Maddie lived in a trailer park in an orange grove in Florida. The cover brings back  memories of the smell of orange blossoms from the orange groves that once covered Florida.I  mistakenly thought that this novel was  a southern fiction novel. It actually was not what I would call southern fiction at all.Only a small part of the story takes place here. I would  say […]