G386 Book Review of The Virtues of Oxygen by Susan Schoenberger
Name of Book: The Virtues of Oxygen Author: Susan Schoenberger ISBN: 9781477822791 Publisher: Lake Union Type of book: Recession, polio, life, money, friendship, widowhood, survival, bills, debt, newspaper, small town, community, 2000s Year it was published: 2014 Summary: From the award-winning author of "A Watershed Year" comes a heartrending story of unlikely bonds made under dire straits. Holly is a young widow with two kids living in a ramshackle house in the same small town where she grew up wealthy. Now barely able to make ends meet editing the town's struggling newspaper, she manages to stay afloat with help from her family. Then her mother suffers a stroke, and Holly's world begins to completely fall apart. Vivian has lived an extraordinary life, despite the fact that she has been confined to an iron lung since contracting polio as a child. Her condition means she requires constant monitoring, and the close-knit community joins together to ...