YA Review – A Daughter’s Journey – young adult historical fiction

Book Details:

Book Title:  A Daughter’s Journey by Myra Lee Glass
Category:  YA Fiction (Ages 13-17),  132 pages
Genre: YA Historical Fiction / Adventure
Publisher: Coleche Press
Release date:   Feb 2023
Content Rating: G: Written for a high school school project 🙂 by a highschooler

Book Description:

The year is 1938 and a family in the small South Carolina town of Beaufort faces serious adversity. After the birth of her long-awaited son, Mary Banks dives into a dark postpartum period, throwing her into a deep depression. Thinking that her sister, Rose, is offering her a helping hand, Mary leaves her family and goes to Boston in search of a medical cure, not to be heard from again.

​Where is Mary Banks? What has Rose done with the much-loved mother and wife of the Banks family? Finally, Mary’s 15-year-old daughter, Estelle can wait no longer. She gathers her wits and her courage and without a word, runs off to heroically rescue her beloved mother in faraway Boston. This is where the adventure begins……

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My Review

Glass, Myra Lee. A Daughter’s Journey. Dallas, TX: Coleche Press, 2023.

The story of A Daughter’s Journey tells of the tragedy of postpartum depression and how it can affect family members. Myra Lee Glass is a young author and the book could have done with better editing. The base of the story is good but it doesn’t flow smoothly. It feels like there is information missing at various points in the story – gaps in the plotline. It also ends very abruptly. All of these things could have been taken care of with good editing.

Estelle takes matters into her own hands when her mother goes to visit her sister Rose while dealing with postpartum depression. It is 1938 so treatments for depression weren’t always appropriate. Rose never liked her brother-in-law and never really acknowledged Estelle. When her mother doesn’t come back Estelle travels hundreds of miles on her own to find her mother and bring her home. 

Realizing it was a different world in 1938 I suppose some of the situations are possible. Yet some of it doesn’t sit true with me so I wonder at the historical accuracy of some of the story. The author does not provide any historical data so I am not sure how much research she did into the period. 

While there is nothing to keep A Daughter’s Journey from being placed in a K-12 Christian school library, I am not sure I would based on the concerns previously mentioned. I recommend librarians read the book for themselves before making a purchasing decision. 

I received a complimentary copy of A Daughter’s Journey. This is my honest review.

 

Meet the Author – Myra Lee Glass:

Myra Lee Glass is a young adult author of A Daughter’s Journey. She lives in Texas with her parents and sister.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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