Author: Chris Tusa
Publisher and Date: Livingston Press (AL) (March 2009)
Summary:
Hailey Trosclair has lived a painful life for only being sixteen. Her hardships turn her to god but finds that her prayers are not answered and her family continues to suffer in New Orleans. Needing a person to keep her faith she turns to Moses Watkins. As it turns out her life was better before she met Moses.
Favorite Quotation from the Book:
“I began to think about the dirty little angels Chloe told me about, how they have to eat your soul before you can get into Heaven, and for a minute, as I listened to the crackle of dead leaves outside my window, I couldn’t help but imagine the glorious sound of angels’ teeth chewing through my tiny black soul.”
Review:
4 out of 5
I had always thought that I could read anything… but then I read Chris Tusa’s book “Dirty Little Angels”. I knew what the book was about from the summary and the sample chapter that Chris sent me but I honestly did not expect it to be quite so raw. It was an emotional and uncomfortable read perhaps bordering on too realistic at times. It took me a long time to read this short novel only because the emotional state of Hailey and the trails she had to endure were hard to stomach. It has been a long time since I was so disturbed by a novel. The fact that the events of Hailey’s grim life disturbed me to the point where I had to set the book aside speaks volumes for the writing ability of Chris Tusa. It is vivid, dark and utterly real.
I gave this book a four out of five because the writing was raw and believable but I have to say that I will not be able to read this novel again, it was too disturbing.
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