audiobook review: We Never Asked for Wings by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
narrated by Emma Bering and Robbie Daymond The backstory: Vanessa Diffenbaugh's first novel, The Language of Flowers , has been on my TBR list since it came out, yet I never got around to it. When I saw her speak at the American Library Association conference this summer, I was wowed, and vowed to read both her books. The basics: We Never Asked for Wings is the story of Letty, an American born to Mexican parents in the U.S. She works as a bartender, and her parents have largely raised her two children, Alex, fifteen, and Luna, six. Life is hard for Letty and her children, and she vows to find a way to move to a good neighborhood in the San Francisco area before Alex starts high school. My thoughts: It took me about twenty minutes to get my bearings in We Never Asked for Wings . It's hard for me to tell sometimes if that's the novel or the act of listening on audio, and Diffenbaugh is intentionally vague in the opening scene. In this case, it may also due to the fac...