Elizabeth Crook's 'The Case With Monday, Monday'

In a country where there is an average of one gun per person, it is not surprising that writers like Elizabeth Crook bases their novels on events caused by these weapons. This is the case with Monday, Monday, a fiction novel developed in 2014 as of the 1966 University of Texas mass shootings.
Elizabeth Crook has built a large career in Texas, where she has written for periodicals, served on the council of the Institute of Letters and, actually, she is a member of Women Writing the West, Western Writers of America. She lived in almost every place she described so, this explains that incredible detailed environment. Crook got to put together the fiction and the reality in an engaging way; she has created an history which, unfortunately, could
Shelly become pregnant and they decided never to see each other again. Even so, Shelly refused to have an abortion and she gave they baby in adoption to Jack and his Mexican wife Delia, who could not have children because Jack was also injured that fateful Monday. They called her Carlotta.
Their lives kept going, but the fate wanted them to gather again. Jack, Delia and Shelly agree that it would be a great idea to see each other more often. Meanwhile, Shelly met a wealthy guy called Dan Hadley; they got married and had a daughter, Madeline. Something similar happened to Wyatt, who had another son with his wife Elaine. Both Shelly and Wyatt visited Jack, Delia and their daughter Carlotta from time to time.
They grew up at the same time as tensions; Madeline was jealous of Carlotta because of the confidence and the affection her mother had with Carlotta and Carlotta could not to stop thinking about who her parents were and why they abandoned her. Finally, they decided to get together and tell all the truth, but that meeting did not never happen. Dan and his teenage daughter were driving to Alpine when they bumped into a guy who was very unsettled since his girlfriend had fell within a cave and she could not get out of there. Dan came to the rescue and he got saving the girl life, but he lost his in return. The following years were especially
Jones award for fiction. This is a book which I have really enjoyed; it made me cry and feeling the need to keep reading to ensure everything was going to be all right. From my point of view, this book wants to show us the importance of gun control problem and how our life could change just in a second forever and, indeed, the writer declares "to know what might have been had their lives not been forever altered-is a constant presence throughout the book" . Furthermore, I would like to add that Crook focuses on gun control, but she also includes a touch of racism "white people should date white people" , infidelity "Andy came home from work one night and confessed to Madeline that he had slept with another woman" or revenge "my plan is to get up there and kill the son of a bitch" , which are also society defects and very relevant topics at the present