Anniesa's Reviews > Hope Was Here

Hope Was Here was such a moving book. It taught many lessons like no matter who or what you are you can always be a leader, have confidence, faith, and hope in yourself and you will succeed, live life to the fullest because you never know when your day to die has come. This book was about a girl that moves from city to city based on how long her and her aunt can keep a diner job. She moves to Wisconsin where she meets her boss G.T. Stoop who has lukemia. He is tired of all the lies the mayor in his town says so he runs for mayor. The chance of him dying did not make him very popular at first but his team of saupporters , teenagers of the town like Hope, Braverman(the co-cook in the Welcome Stairs, the diner Hope works in, Adam(a very young strong spin doctor), and Sid Vole he becomes hope for the town. After hard work G.T. is put on the election board. Through lies, challenges, and obstacles everyone hopesd that G.T. is the new mayor. Hope and her aunt have lived together since she could remember and this was because her mother wasn't ready to be a mother so she gave her to her aunt, Addie. Every few years Hope's mother would come to visit her and she would always write Christmas letters. Hope was glad that she had Addie and grateful her mother wasn't her guardian but the one thing she longed for was a real father. This book was magnificent.