A book with a happy ending

I picked up Grace After Midnight from the Y.A. Biography section of my library and started reading without looking at the information on the back cover. So, I had no idea whatsoever how the book would end until the very last part. I had been feeling so sad for Snoop, who got out of prison and got one job after another only to be let go because of her record. It's horrible to think about how many people there are out there who go through the same thing, eventually having to return to selling drugs or running whatever scams can make them money.

Finding out, right at the end, that Snoop was spotted for The Wire and ended up with a role was a surprise. It made me really happy because I felt for her while I read her story. Her writing style is clean and simple, and I related to her though I have nothing in common with her whatsoever. Her humanity came through as she described shooting people, fighting and killing a stranger. People have already been harassing me about not having watched The Wire. I have got to start watching this show! I mean, can the show really be as good as everyone says it is? Literally everyone is in love with this show.

So, after I finished the book I got around to looking at the jacket and see that she is now in a couple of feature films. If this was fiction, the ending would have seemed to good to be true. Happy endings are nice, sometimes, especially when you don't expect one.