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I cried, I giggled, I cried some more...Wish Me Home by Kay Bratt brings it

Wish Me Home by Kay Bratt

A hungry, stray dog is the last thing Cara Butter needs. Stranded in Georgia with only her backpack and a few dwindling dollars, she already has too much baggage.  Like her twin sister, Hana, who has broken Cara's heart one too many times. After a lifetime of family troubles, and bouncing from one foster home to another, Cara decides to leave it all behind and strike out alone-on foot.

Cara sets off for Florida to see the home of her literary hero, Ernest Hemingway, accompanied only by Hemi, the stray dog who proves to be the perfect travel companion.  But the harrowing trip takes unexpected turns as strangers become friends, who make her question everything, and Cara finds that as the journey unfolds, so does her life--in ways, she could never imagine.


Kay Bratt has written children's novels and eleven other novels but this is the first cross-over into contemporary women's fiction and I can say she crossed over and staked her claim. She easily has a new home in this genre. 

Cara has always been the one to swoop in and clean up the messes her twin sister, Hana, gets herself into. Setting out, on foot, she leaves behind a mess.  As she travels along the way Cara discovers that life, people, and herself are not as she has believed them to be all along. 

 As Hemi and Cara discover new places and people Cara discovers herself, the one long hidden away.  

 Make sure you have some kleenex, I cried and sniffled my way thru this book always quick to turn the page to see what the next revelation Cara will come too.  

Thanks to NetGalley, Lake Union Publishing and Kay Bratt for my advanced copy for an honest review.

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