Life on the Refrigerator Door - Alice Kuipers

Based on Katie Rose's Planning Around A Text project for this book, I decided to read it. It's the story of a mom and a daughter, both busy and therefore constantly missing each other (by which I mean they never see each other, though, presumably, at times, they also do miss each other. Though, like most mother-daughter relationships, it has its occasional tensions and flare-ups). So, they tend to communicate by leaving notes for each other on the refrigerator door.

It's a short, sweet, and easy read. But, really, more bittersweet than sweet, as one of the central plot devices is that the mom gets cancer and we see them dealing with it, and their relationship, through their refrigerator door communication.

Yup, for me, it was a tear-jerker. I admit it.

It was a good read, but, pretty solidly in the chick-lit camp, I think I'd have to say.

Interesting point, from a teaching or YA Lit standpoint is that it has been marketed as both adult and young adult lit (just like The Book Thief and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time).

Also perhaps note-worthy is its note-based-structure, that is, its sort of epistolary format. I'm suddenly noticing a lot of these out there, and think it might be something worth exploring more, from a teaching-literature standpoint. There just might be some sort of a fun project in there, waiting to be created.