After spending years in and out of foster homes, Ursula finds herself in a halfway house. She is only sixteen, but her counselor has found her a job in the post room of an art school and taught her a few very basic living skills. They agree this is better than sending her to yet another home where she is unwanted and mistreated. Alone in the world, Ursula trusts no one and moves through her daily routine with a kind of hesitant fearfulness. She has one talent, and almost by accident, while snooping around the art school, she begins to focus more seriously on her own artistic endeavors. When she finally makes a friend in her coworker Sue, Ursula is invited to live in a squatters’ house with Sue’s boyfriend, Vince. For me, this is where the story took a very different turn. Without giving anything away, I will say I was not expecting the gruesome horror story it became. The book is well written, and Ursula’s life and art are unique and interesting, but I found myself wishing the novel had gone in a different direction. In the end, I couldn’t wait to be done with it. It’s not a bad book; it just wasn’t for me at all. ⭐⭐
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