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A review by angieinbooks
Finding H.F. by Julia Watts
3.0
I really enjoyed this for the most part. H.F. is a wonderful narrator and an interesting character, and I think this is where the narrative excels.
So H.F. lives in a small Kentucky town where she's one of two gay kids. Her mother had her when just was a teenager and then quickly bounced when H.F. was still a baby. She has no idea who her father is. But she has her memaw, a deeply religious woman who has tried to raise H.F. right. After a disastrous first kiss the new girl and accidentally stumbling upon an address for her mother, H.F. and her very gay BFF take a roadtrip to Florida to meet her.
There's nothing particularly groundbreaking to this story. I came to it expecting a story about the intersection of faith with queer identity and, while it's there, it wasn't what I was expecting since H.F. doesn't believe in God. H.F. is not bothered that she's queer; she just knows she can't come out while she lives in her town with her memaw, so it's not a coming out story. And it's definitely not a romance.
But H.F. is compelling in her own right. I loved the way she speaks and thinks and confronts her own biases over and over.
This story was first published in 2011 and it definitely feels dated, but I still enjoyed it.
So H.F. lives in a small Kentucky town where she's one of two gay kids. Her mother had her when just was a teenager and then quickly bounced when H.F. was still a baby. She has no idea who her father is. But she has her memaw, a deeply religious woman who has tried to raise H.F. right. After a disastrous first kiss the new girl and accidentally stumbling upon an address for her mother, H.F. and her very gay BFF take a roadtrip to Florida to meet her.
There's nothing particularly groundbreaking to this story. I came to it expecting a story about the intersection of faith with queer identity and, while it's there, it wasn't what I was expecting since H.F. doesn't believe in God. H.F. is not bothered that she's queer; she just knows she can't come out while she lives in her town with her memaw, so it's not a coming out story. And it's definitely not a romance.
But H.F. is compelling in her own right. I loved the way she speaks and thinks and confronts her own biases over and over.
This story was first published in 2011 and it definitely feels dated, but I still enjoyed it.