The sins of the fathers?

Tallie is on the run from her family and the pain she have had experienced. The Parks are odd family of different personalities - yet every one of them is damaged (or better said hurt) in their own way. And they can not communicate well with the others - so they are just living with the shared secrets. But 10-year-old Tallulah is very perceptive.
So when strange Uncle Jack enters the scene, Tallie knows something is going on - with her beautiful, loving mother suddenly gets ill and her father is going colder and colder. And then her mother, the center of her universe, dies. And Tallie is sent off to the boarding school - hurt, alone and with scary suspicions clouding her heart. And The Park cycle continues with the hurt and the inability to share it.
So Tallie runs and runs from life - until her father gets seriously sick. And now maybe it’s time to find out about the secrets.

This is deep, touching story, packed with hurtingly beautiful emotions and tons of authenticity. It reveals its depths slowly, but the long read is very much worth it. And maybe it is so relatable because the Parks, this eccentric, odd pack, are really the every family with the closet full of skeletons and human, messy, embarrassing way of dealing with them. And while this is a deep book, it is also a very catchy read - not always the case, but here I went willing with the long ride and the truths which has been hitting close to home from time to time. Because I, too, can not always know how to communicate my true feelings and how to ask the hard questions while maintaining the open heart.

Recommended read.