Rosie Colored Glasses, Brianna Wolfson
Rosie Colored Glasses, Brianna Wolfson
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Rosie Colored Glasses

Author: Brianna Wolfson

Narrator: Devon Sorvari

Unabridged: 8 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/20/2018


Synopsis

SEEING THE WORLD THROUGH ROSIE COLORED GLASSES Just as opposites attract, they can also cause friction, and no one feels that friction more than Rex and Rosie’s daughter, Willow. Rex is serious and unsentimental and tapes checklists of chores on Willow’s bedroom door. Rosie is sparkling and enchanting and meets Willow in their treehouse in the middle of the night to feast on candy. After Rex and Rosie’s divorce, Willow finds herself navigating their two different worlds. She is clearly under the spell of her exciting, fun-loving mother. But as Rosie’s behavior becomes more turbulent, the darker underpinnings of her manic love are revealed. Rex had removed his Rosie colored glasses long ago, but will Willow do the same?

Whimsical, heartbreaking and uplifting, this is a novel about the many ways love can find you. Rosie Colored Glasses triumphs with the most endearing examples of how mothers and fathers and sons and daughters bend for one another.

About Brianna Wolfson

Brianna Wolfson is a New York native living in San Francisco. Her narrative nonfiction has been featured on Medium, Upworthy and The Moth. She buys a lottery ticket every Friday.


Reviews

I read the description and for some reason I thought it would be a lighter read. Maybe it was the use of the word whimsical. It wasn’t. It's a sad story, sadder even knowing that the character of Rosie and the story in some ways is based on the author's free spirit mother who was addicted to opiates......more

Goodreads review by Debra

I LOVED this book!!!!! I was a mess by the end but I loved every single page! This book reads like a fairy tale which I LOVED!!! Very nice touch. This book touched on so many things: love, loss, mental illness, addiction, bullying, family, Mother-child relationships, Father-Child relationships, etc. R......more

Rosie Colored Glasses is Willow Thorpe’s story. She’s been untethered since her parents split up because there are two worlds to navigate now, one with each parent. We are also told her parents, Rosie and Rex’s, story from when they first meet. They are opposites; Rosie, the risk-taker, while Rex pl......more