Defiance by Valerie Hobbs

Defiance by Valerie Hobbs

Defiance. Defiance is defined as 1. challenge 2.disposition to resist or contend. The main characters of this book have chosen to defie obstacles that are around them. Toby has decided that he is finished with cancer, with hospitals, chemo and being sick - even though the lump on his side tells him otherwise. Pearl has decided she is done with just about everyone, especially her kids and her poetry. So when these two defiant characters are brought together over an ailing cow, their unlikely friendship begins. They have much to learn from each other and how defiance also contains a smidgen of surrender.

I enjoyed how cleverly the author made you interested in the poems that Pearl introduces to Toby, and how she-Pearl lets Toby discover the imagery and magic that poetry brings to the world.

Heartwarming and over too soon.

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