Wow. Just finished Margo and what a roller coaster! At first I was so caught up in whether or not this book delivered what I wanted it to that I had a hard time reconnecting to it. I made the mistake of taking a pretty long break from it during vacation. But once I got back into the story I was hooked. I think I finished it in a little over a day. Elle did a great job reading it even tho there were awkward pauses sometimes or an inflection was weird. She just got Margo’s voice, I think.
Anyway. I am glad that it delivered is a happy ending and I think that that happy ending was actually very realistic. Margo went through hell before coming to this point of relative calm and ease. It is very likely she will have other challenges in the future but we all have that. She is at a point where things feel good and I think we can all look back at our lives and be like “oh yeah, that was a good moment” that is independent of the shitty times that came before or after.
One thing that wasn't realistic was the lawyer stuff. I am so glad that fictional Margo had the means and support to retain a lawyer and fight CPS. In real life, at least in Maine, this almost never happens. I wonder if Rufi has had experience w CPS because the worker was written perfectly. I have dealt w those folks over and over again and they are all the same. She is right, they think they are doing good and in reality they are an evil cog in an evil wheel of an evil system. Never call them.
I think the book put forth some really cool ideas about love, art, and parenting.
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