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I’ve lived most of my adult life in a place very much like where Kiva decides to start her new life — on the dry side of Oregon, in the pine forest surrounded by wheat fields. I’ve had both termites and mice in my house — luckily I don’t share my home with either of those critters anymore — and for a while it sat on firewood rounds while we rebuilt the foundation. I’ve piled a lot of brush, helped plant more than a million trees, and raised two sons. I’m also the author of several books for kids, five picture books and four novels for the young — and the young at heart.
Reviewed by Anne-Marie Reynolds for Readers' Favorite
Of Mice and Money by Winifred Morris is a comic story of love and drugs. Kiva decides enough is enough and leaves her drug-smuggling husband, Carlton – without actually telling him. Over the years, she has stashed away some money and finds a whole lot more in a desk drawer, allowing her to purchase a run-down, mouse-infested house in the woods. It’s the perfect place to stay hidden and she sets about making a new life for herself – until her husband shows up. Then her long-lost daughter Amy appears out of the blue, an old friend who gets her involved in drug smuggling again and an employee of her husband who hasn’t been paid and wants his money. If that weren’t bad enough, Kiva’s hippy parents show up in a huge motor home and from there things turn into a comic-book caper of drugs and running from the baddies and the law. Add Howie and his mother into the mix and you have the makings of what promises to be a story reminiscent of a comedy sketch on TV.
Of Mice and Money by Winifred Morris is a very funny story, following Kiva and her bid to break away from her husband. It’s a story that anyone who has been through a similar bid to escape, to find themselves and to reconnect with their family again should be able to relate to. I must say I found it a little slow to begin with, but it soon picked up pace and roared off. The first part of the book lets you get to know the characters and understand how they fit into the story later on. I have to say I thoroughly enjoyed it and was quite disappointed when it ended – I hope there’s more where that came from.
