Showing To Dance With Ugly People by Lorene Stunson Hill

Where do I begin?? This story is told through letters from Dani's youth all the way into her adulthood. The author, Lorene Stunson Hill, portrays all of the struggles that her character suffered as a child including abandonment and resentment.

As she grows older, life challenges her even more with desperation when her world is shaken by the Detroit Riots of 1967, fear and unrequited loneliness leads her to feeling hopeful as she moves to Orlando, Florida living in low income housing as a single Mother, but she has the courage and strength to carry on. She still believes that someone is out there who can give her the only thing that she has always searched for, true affection and respect toward the woman she has become.

The author, Lorene Stunson Hill, wants her readers to understand the pain and hardships that plagued Dani's life so that you can understand her strength and the measures she took to find happiness.

Both men and women can read this because this story does not have a specific gender preference. While the story is written in a series of letters by Dani, the main character, it is by no means too feminine. I give this book five stars because it was very well written and creative. There is so much raw talent that is encompassed into this novel; therefore, I was unable to put it down and I enjoyed having learned some new depths of life... Lauren Jones (Lauren's Book & Media Club).