![]() ![]() Overweight, Soula seems to need to spend a lot of time sitting down. Addie befriends the owners of the nearby minimart, Soula and Elliot. ![]() While Addie tries to make the best of the cramped and unhygienic trailer, Addie’s half-sisters, Brynna and Katie, are living with Dwight in a new house. Mommers has become increasingly erratic in recent years, divorcing Addie’s stepfather, Dwight, and failing to keep up with payments on the family home. The novel begins as Addie and her mother, whom she calls “Mommers,” move into a run-down trailer in Schenectady, New York. The novel won the 2009 Schneider Book Award. Waiting for Normal (2008), a young adult novel by American writer Leslie Connor, follows the trials and tribulations of eleven-year-old Addison “Addie” Schmeeter, who is left in the care of her erratic and possibly bipolar mother. ![]()
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