– No One Ever Asked, Katie Ganshert
Title: No One Ever Asked
Author: Katie Ganshert
Published By: Penguin Random House, April 2018
Reviewed By: Jessica B
Genre: Women’s Fiction, Spiritual Fiction
Pages: 384 (Paperwork)
Rating: 4/5 Stars
No One Ever Asked is a powerful, thought-provoking novel, filled with passionate content as the reader follows three families whose lives intertwine in ways they never believed possible. At first I was unsure of whether or not I would enjoy the material of the book. However, I quickly found myself not wanting to stop reading. Katie Ganshert beautifully crafts mental images and evokes emotion through her detailed descriptions and eloquent dialogue. The material, while heavy at times, will touch the hearts of many.
No One Ever Asked poses several relevant questions relating to today’s society and the biases people hold and encounter on a daily basis. It makes the reader examine his/her own life and challenges faced. It also encourages the reader to question his/her decisions, actions, and reactions, and how those may have impacted someone in ways not necessarily intended. While we often see what is bad in society and what constantly goes wrong, this book also shows us that there is hope in resolving conflict even amongst varying opinions.
This is a book I would read again due to the vast amount of detail that is packed into it. I would love to see all of the connections and foreshadowing that Katie includes in the novel, after knowing what is to come. I believe a wide variety of people will enjoy this novel both now and in the future.
Recommender For:
- Young adult and adult women
- Spiritual and faith driven women
About the Book:
Challenging perceptions of discrimination and prejudice, this emotionally resonant drama for readers of Lisa Wingate and Jodi Picoult explores three different women navigating challenges in a changing school district–and in their lives.
When an impoverished school district loses its accreditation and the affluent community
of Crystal Ridge has no choice but to open their school doors, the lives of three very different women converge: Camille Gray–the wife of an executive, mother of three, long-standing PTA chairwoman and champion fundraiser–faced with a shocking discovery that threatens to tear her picture-perfect world apart at the seams. Jen Covington, the career nurse whose long, painful journey to motherhood finally resulted in adoption but she is struggling with a happily-ever-after so much harder than she anticipated. Twenty-two-year-old Anaya Jones–the first woman in her family to graduate college and a brand new teacher at Crystal Ridge’s top elementary school, unprepared for the powder-keg situation she’s stepped into. Tensions rise within and without, culminating in an unforeseen event that impacts them all. This story explores the implicit biases impacting American society, and asks the ultimate question: What does it mean to be human? Why are we so quick to put labels on each other and categorize people as “this” or “that”, when such complexity exists in each person?
About the Author:
Katie Ganshert is the author of several novels and works of short fiction, including the Christy Award-winning A Broken Kind of Beautiful and Carol Award-winner, The Art of Losing Yourself. Katie lives in eastern Iowa with her family.
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Disclaimer: I received this book from Blogging for Books for this review.
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