Rolling Toward Clear Skies by Catherine Ryan Hyde is another one of her signature novels. Somehow this author finds a way to help people see other parts of life in an uplifting way, by allowing her characters to grow and change. In this novel, two teenage girls are given everything and anything while two other teenage girls are given nothing and have had to scrape for everything. All four girls are suddenly together in the same family.
Maggie and Alex own Doctors on Wheels. With some trusted others, they respond to emergency situations and help supply medical attention during disasters. While dealing with the aftermath of a hurricane in Louisiana, they find two teenage girls and a puppy left on their own. Maggie agrees to foster and then adopt them, knowing her two teenagers from a prior marriage were not going to be accepting. Maggie hopes that this choice she is making will help both sets of girls become better people. A pipe dream with a curious method to help both.
The story held my attention the entire way through. I pretty much read the book in a day around errands. I enjoyed the characters, although I felt the author made the dichotomy more distinct to help draw the lines between them. Catherine Ryan Hyde’s books always look for and find the best in people. Her stories, while do not end perfectly, they do end perfectly enough for the reader to go ahhh. Rolling Toward Clear Skies by Catherine Ryan Hyde is a really good read.
