Perfect Family

Rating:
Summary: A Realistic Look at a "Perfect" Family
Review: The Perfect Family, Oughton's third young adult novel, is as piercingly realistic as award-winning "Music from a Place Called Half Moon" and "The War in Georgia." Families are not perfect, and Oughton understands that all too well. In this 1950's family, fifteen-year-old Welcome Marie O'Neal becomes pregnant, and her sister runs off to California in search of James Dean. Living with her supportive aunt and uncle, Welcome must choose what to do with her baby, and with her own life. Oughton's writing is gentle and perceptive; her voice is strong; her characters are real. I highly recommend this and her other YA novels.