Takeaway: Coming of age means realizing your dreams may not be what is important.
I am not sure why I enjoy reading young adult coming of age books, but there is something refreshing about the innocence of realizing that the whole world does not revolve around you that I find encouraging.
Finn (Finley) has lived her life believing that it was just her and her mom. Everyone else in her life has rejected her or was not around. So Finn focused on her dreams and studied and prepared for a future of being a doctor. On the night of her graduation (she was valedictorian with a full ride to a great college) she finds a stack of letters from her grandparents that her mother had hidden from her.