I read a nowel named Full Stop. It was written by Alecia McKenzie, and it tells about Carmen who is in thirties and her grandmother Scottie. They send letter to each others and for Carmen the reading is quite difficult and annyoing, because her grandmother doesn’t use any punctuation. They disscuss about normal every day things, about work and neighbours, but they also speak a lot about Carmens mother and about her brother.

Carmen was born when her mother was very young, so her grandmother has raised her. Carmens mother moved to England to get a job, and when Carmen was about two years old, she got a baby brother who also moved to her and their grandmother. I’m not sure where does their grandmother live but they talk about an iseland which in not in USA and I think it’s quite near to where Carmens mother lives (she lives still in England), so maybe it’s Ireland. Anyway Carmen lives now in New York and her brother Richard lives in California.

In every letter grandmother Scottie talks about ”Normy”, and when Carmen writes a letter back to Scottie, she sends kisses from Normy to Scottie. In one letter they talk something like Carmen would be pregnant and Normy and she are thinking about ”taking the baby”, so maybe Normy is Carmens boyfriend. Almost every letter includes money from Carmen to her grandmother, sometimes Scottie uses the money to paint her house and sometimes she puts it in to the bank.

God is very important to Carmens grandmother and she talks about it in every letter. Carmen is not so sure if God can save Scottie from falling out of ladders when she paints the house. Scottie also tells about thieves who are stealing her neighbours houses and Carmen wants her grandmother to put burglar bars to her windows. But still Scottie thinks that God will save her.

One of the things they disscuss in their letters is Carmens mother. Carmen feels that Scotties is her real mother because she is the one who raised her and her brother, and she is the one who always take care of them. She has seen her mother only once, but her mother keeps writing letters to Carmen.

The story was little bit hard to read because like I told Scottie didn’t use any punctuation. There is also many things that are hard to understand. And the end came very quickly, it just ended.