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Book Review By Mallory
The Long Road Home by Danielle Steel

The book starts off with the main character, Gabriella, as a child. We learn that she is physically beaten by her mother frequently. Her Dad doesn't do anything and leaves them. This continues years later until she is almost a teen. Her mother abandons her at a coventry with nuns. She then has to adjust her lifestyle. She grows up with these nuns and makes good friends with them. She is known to be sweet, disciplined, obeying and hardworking. She never opens up to many people. Later when she's 18 she moves out on her own and makes a living working at small restaurants. She meets a young priest, although their relationship doesn't work out. She also meets a couple of other people who become quite significant to her. In the end she finds herself and relizes that what her mother did to her as a child isn't her fault.


Plot & Themes
Tone of book? - depressed
Time/era of story - 1960's-1970's
Kids growing up/acting up? Yes
Kids: - struggling to earn a living to survive
Family, struggle with Yes
Struggle with: - Mother (or standin)
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Parents/lack of parents problem?

Main Character
Gender - Female
Profession/status:
Age: - 20's-30's

Main Adversary
Identity: - Female

Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings? - 5 ()
City? Yes
City: - New York

Writing Style
Sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - vague references only - descript of kissing - touching of anatomy
Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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