Mondo Bungle

How I Came to Sparkle Again by Kaya McLaren, 2012

A book loaded with an almost comical amount of tragedy and hardships for its fragile characters, but more so loaded with hope and perseverance.

The main character comes home to the ski town of Sparkle, Colorado after fleeing from her husband and his affair with another woman, and it's up to the Sparklers to help her heal, whether that be with humor or liquor or hot sex. There's also a ten year old girl with a dead mother and single father with hardly any time for her. And miscarriages.

The pay off didn't deliver as much as I'd hoped but it stayed true to the claims of being a page turner at least for me. It also should get bonus points for a surprising amount of gruesome medical recollections.

3.5/5

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