Everyone warns her, but she won’t believe it until she experiences it. Sometimes, we just want to reach into the book and shake some sense into Finch’s mind - her father is a creep and he isn’t coming back. She refuses to believe that he just left and thinks up excuse after excuse for why he hasn’t returned. When Maddy falls from her roof and is in the hospital and rehab for weeks, Finch takes care of the animals, including a dog who has been showing up for food but is scared of people and unapproachable.įinch is determined to find her father, and she dreams about their reunion. Maddy is someone Finch trusts and can talk to. Luckily, Finch has a friend in Maddy, their next-door neighbor who rescues wildlife and was a good friend to Finch’s mother. Her stepfather doesn’t believe that Finch is a girl, and her stepmother Cindee believes that Jesus would not have made a mistake, and Finch just needs God in her life. Now Finch lives with her stepparents, and she feels it’s a burden on them. He was a nice guy, but when her mom died a few days before her tenth birthday, Stan remarried within a year. After her dad left, Finch’s mom married Stan. Her mother didn’t mind how she dressed or wore her hair, although it was a source of tension with her father.īut her father left Finch and her mother when her mom received her second diagnosis of breast cancer. But since she was old enough to articulate the thought, Finch has insisted that she’s a girl. Part of Finch’s problem is that she was born Morgan, the son of two loving parents. In “Freeing Finch,” author Ginny Rorby does what she excels at - the creation of a main character who is in need of love, understanding, and a place where she feels safe.
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