Comfort

by Joyce Hostetter

Paper Book, 2009

Status

Available

Call number

HF1945

Publication

Honesdale, Pa. : Calkins Creek, 2009.

Description

World War II is over and Ann Fay Honeycut has new challenges--mostly her relationship with her father, home from the war, and the emotional and physical demands of polio. Now that Daddy has returned from fighting Hitler and Ann Fay is home from the polio hospital, life should get back to normal. But Ann Fay discovers she no longer fits easily into old friendships and Daddy has been traumatized by the war. Her family and social life are both falling apart. Ever responsible, she tries to fix things until she finally admits that she herself needs fixing. She travels to the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation, founded by Franklin D. Roosevelt, where she finds comfort, healing, and even a little romance. Although this invigorating experience does not solve all her problems, it does give Ann Fay a new view of herself. In this Parents' Choice Awards Recommended Book, sequel to Blue, Ann Fay makes new friends, reevaluates old relationships, and discovers her unique place in the community.… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member jothebookgirl
Comfort was not what I expected. What I expected was the happy homecoming bitter sweet with the death of Bobby. What she wrote was reality.
LibraryThing member fingerpost
"Comfort" picks up where "Blue" left off. Anne Fay is home from the polio hospital and missing her black friend Imogene. At first, she's excited because her father is back from fighting in World War II, but as time goes along she sees that he didn't come back whole. He is suffering from what we now
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call post traumatic stress disorder. Anne Fay returns to school to find that wearing her braces and walking with crutches, and also being a year behind because of the time in the polio hospital, make her not fit in very well.
Her salvation comes when she gets sent to the Warm Springs Foundation for physical therapy, and just as importantly, the emotional therapy of being with other people who have suffered the same ordeal she has. Warm Springs seems too good to be true for Anne Fay, a poor farm girl.
Her happy time there comes to an abrupt end when her good friend and neighbor, Junior Bledsoe, shows up unannounced to let her know that her father has, at least a couple of times, hurt her mother.
Fabulous book, but do read "Blue" first.
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Physical description

306 p.; 21 cm

ISBN

9781590786062

Barcode

443
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