When Izzy found out she was pregnant, she thought she had a plan. She’ll marry the baby’s father, her high school art teacher, and they’ll live a happy life together. But things rarely go as planned, do they?
Izzy finds herself alone and pregnant, working on her feet at a barbecue joint where she pulls meat from the bellies of pigs. She has a sort of plan, but things change when the baby’s grandmother steps in to offer Izzy money and a chance at a very different life.
Izzy ends up in the Infinite Family Project, where nine other families and their children come together to raise their children. For the first several years, the children don’t know who their parents are, and each parent takes on the responsibility of loving and caring for every child. It’s an experiment, and one Izzy finds her home in.
Kevin Wilson’s Perfect Little World tells a beautiful story of a family that comes together for research and learns to love and live with one another in unexpected ways. They challenge and change each other, and as a reader you’re drawn in to what is happening with deft writing that helps you both understand what is happening and want to know so much more.
The story of Izzy, her son Cap, and the family they are part of is captivating and as a reader it made me consider how I might raise my children in the same environment. It also made me think about love is so many things. Least of all of these things, Perfect Little World reminds us that love is infinite.
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