![]() ![]() Jones handles both subjects with more tact that I’m used to, and as I got past my fears, I was drawn into Aria’s world. Drugs and vomiting…two of my phobias all wrapped up together in the same book. I didn’t know much about it going in, and I wasn’t sure how much I’d like reading a book that has morning sickness and a neighborhood full of crackheads. But then a revelation changes everything. She’s pregnant and her boyfriend has proposed. Everything seems to be headed that direction. She wants nothing more than to marry and have a family. ![]() Now, as an adult, Aria lives in a drug-infested neighborhood in Atlanta, working in an outreach program for teen literacy. The rest of her adolescence was spent with an older sister who just wanted to get away and a disapproving mother who became progressively crazier as time passed. When Aria was a child, her family was ripped apart by a car accident that killed her father and baby sister. ![]()
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