Review: "The Golden State" by Michelle Richmond

This is a great end of the summer read. Since I am a mother/grandmother and there was a small child involved, it was an action packed, page turner for me, I just had to know how this storyline turned out. That was just one of the themes that this book followed and I was unable to put it down!

This follows the story of a doctor who is married to a radio disc jockey. They have a chance meeting when she was in medical school and they knew they belonged together. He works the midnight shift at the radio station and she is a doctor at the veterans’ hospital and does volunteering at a clinic in a poor neighborhood. She is very compassionate and gets too involved in her patients’ lives. Because of this, a young child is brought into their existence and nothing will ever be the same.

Although I enjoyed this book, it was hard to follow. It jumps around from present, to her childhood, to that morning when she heads to the hospital and was hard to keep track of where the story was actually in time. This is definitely a book that you need to pay attention to what is going on to follow the story.