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** spoiler alert ** What a complicated cast of characters! This story grabbed me right from the beginning and I could not put the book down. It's one of those rare books where you become completely immersed with everybody's drama and do not want the book to end. I could read about these people all day (and I did!).

I loved Davie! Davie is a 10 year on the autism spectrum, so maybe this hit close to home. Certainly, the book focuses on the "fun" nuances of parenting a child with ASD. What the book does not really focus on is how absolutely hard and impossible doing this is on the daily. It seems easy for Francine to swoop in with money and fresh energy because she did not have to do it every single day like Tucker and Jeannette. I think that's why I struggled with the ending because it ends so positively and unrealistically. Yes, it is all solved now. Francine becomes an expert within a couple of weeks and it's all pretty easy as long as you just love your child. I want an epilogue showing Francine at a bar with her spirit in the toilet after one year's worth of rejection of physical touch and emotional connection to someone with this disability and doing it as a single parent. But it is beautiful to see Francine meeting Davie where is he and loving him completely.

I received an e-arc from Netgalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review.