Hatter Fox

Hatter Fox. Marilyn Harris. New York, NY. Random House, Inc., 1973. 241 pp.
This book, about seventeen-year-old Navajo girl named Hatter Fox, was supposedly written by a Dr. Teague summer concerning Hatter Fox’s involvement with drugs, prostitution, and crime. She hates the white community of Santa Fe New Mexico, where she lives, and they all hate her. Dr. Teague Summer is the only person who wants to help her.
This story will most likely reach out to the romance novel readers but, I it really isn’t a romance, but I tend to think that this book was written to show other audiences that no matter what the circumstances people help others for the wrong motives. People do things mainly for the reward that could be involved, but what about doing things for the reward of feeling good? I believe that Dr. Teague Summer was the most convincing character because he shows that he sincerely wants to help Hatter fox not for himself, or for any one. He just wants to help.
This book teaches us that love comes in many forms, we are all human, and we all make mistakes. I would not recommend this book because it is not very suspenseful and tends to drag on forever. I would give this book a five out of ten. Hatter fox will make some bad choices that will make you mad at some points in the story, but somehow she always makes the reader feel sorry for her at the end. The plot was written well but some parts could have been revised to improve the plot, like her dying at the end.
Reviewed by Aaron M.