My favorite thing about Ginny Yttrup’s books are the way they deal with real-life women’s issues without glossing or sugar-coating or down-playing. Her characters are relatable. They don’t always do something extraordinary, but they overcome something in their lives that is holding them back from truly living. These characteristics set her fiction apart: there is women’s fiction and then there is Ginny Yttrup women’s fiction.
Her latest release, Home, encompasses all of these favorite elements. The main character, Melanie, is a writer, but she is struggling to live in the present. Her neighbor, Jill, is afraid of bad things happening, which manifests in OCD behavior. When she discovers the root cause of it all and confronts her past, she learns to live free. Melanie’s husband, Craig, is struggling to make the finances work out. He faces giving up the house he built for them and facing an unknown future.
(Disclaimer: I received an advance copy of the book from the author. Opinion reflected in this review is my honest one.)
Yttrup has a gift for writing in multiple points of view. Each chapter is told from a different character’s perspective, but it’s not confusing or overwhelming. When done well, it’s beautiful and brilliant, and Yttrup does it well.
You really can’t go wrong with any of Yttrup’s books. Two other books of hers I’ve read and enjoyed are Lost and Found and Invisible.
If you need more of a sense of the tone of this newest book, check out this book trailer:
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