on a wedding I really want to know just what happened to Larry Moore. Lily’s mother makes up an elaborate tale of airplanes and tanks and dogs, to protect her from ridicule. While Rosie wasn’t the most capable parent, she really did all she could for Lily. That really made this chapter stand out through the whole book.The second chapter was fun to read. It made me laugh when it described Rosie and Lily dancing around their little apartment “with fruit in [their] hands and celebrating the morning” (pg 9) How they turned that small one bedroom apartment into a magical place where everything was perfect and they were the only thing the other needed. This book has really helped me appreciate my family, as ordinary as it seems. I am so lucky to be raised with both my parents, living in the same stable environment my whole life. I have been so sheltered and protected, my mother reminds me of Rosie. She does anything she can to help my sisters and me, and she loves to have fun. AS I was reading Sleeping Arrangements my dad was away on a business trip, and I found myself missing him. I was very glad to see him when he got back, relieved that he was there for me again.This book also deals with a lot of the problems that young adults suffered from before quality education systems. Lily was so mixed up about sex, it made me laugh at some of the things she and her friends believed, but it also made me think. If they didn’t know about sex, how could they prevent from getting STDs or pregnant? It made me realize that there are many places in the world, and even in America where people are so uneducated and ignorant that they don’t know about the transfer of diseases. It really made me want to go out and educate someone, as corny as that sounds. Laura Shaine Cunningham is a remarkably ordinary woman. She had an average childhood for a Jewish child growing up in the poverty of the Bronx in the fifties...
