sold on a monday

“sold on a monday” by Kristina McMorris

Fiction – 332 pages

3.5/5 stars

 

The book isn’t quite what I was expecting but I still enjoyed it. Whereas I thought it would be more about the children’s story, it was actually centered around the adults and their role in the situation.  Still quite haunting though to think of people being so desperate as to give away or sell their children.  I can’t imagine ever being in that predicament, having to make such a desperate decision.  Granted, nowadays there is more help to get families through tough times than there were during the Great Depression so this type of situation doesn’t happen anymore, thank goodness.

 

At the end of the book, the author tells how she came about for the idea of the story.  There actually was a picture published in the papers about a family that were selling their children for practically nothing.  Although it is thought that the picture might have been staged, the children pictured were in fact sold.  It is a picture that will stay with me.