Kate Messner updates the "Old Man and the Sea" with this wonderful and touching story of Charlie and her family. Charlie, a 12 year-old Irish dancing, ice fishing, youngest daughter, wants to raise enough money to buy an amazing feis dress. While fishing she finds a wishing fish and begins to wish for things to help her family, friends, and herself.
Things get messed up when her oldest sister, Abby, is discovered to have a heroin addiction. Will the wishes help Abby? Will Charlie get to continue Irish dancing?
As a child of an alcoholic, this book would have been a gift to me. It would have helped me to understand so much more of what happens in the mind of the addict. This book is simply perfection.

*I received an advanced readers copy from NetGalley for an honest review.