The Exact Location of Home

Realistic fiction that helps one understand circumstances that just crumble without the ability to get out from under them.  I'm not normally a very political person, but this one makes me think of the politicians that speak against welfare...saying the "poor" have the ability to get a job and do better for themselves.  It makes me think of the people in the same room I'm in and what is really going on with them at home.  Don't judge before you know!

wishtree

I'm calling this one realistic fiction even though it's written from the point of view of a tree.  Realistic because what is happening to the humans is real.  How many times does fear cause you to make bad decisions?  In here, the fear of someone that is different, the fear of controversy, the fear of not being accepted.  The more I read the more I realize there are so many things I don't know, have not had to face and truly don't understand.