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Laddar... Gardenias: A Novelav Faith Sullivan
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. In this sequel to The Cape Ann, Lark has moved with her mother Arlene and Aunt Betty from Minnesota to San Diego. The two older women are escaping unhappy marriages while Lark is simply trying to get by. She escapes into her imaginative stories after "channeling" the used furniture in their subsistence housing. There are lots of quirky characters to make life interesting and some downright nasty little boys that make Lark's life quite miserable. Sullivan doesn't resort to trendy literary gimmicks in her writing. She relies on old-fashioned storytelling in these nostalgic tales of triumph over adversity. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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It's 1942, just a month after the United States entered World War II. Lark, her mother Arlene, and Aunt Betty are in a station changing trains, leaving their lives in Harvester, Minnesota behind, and waiting for the train going to Los Angeles. Young men -- soldiers -- swarm the platform, heading off to war. Against this dramatic backdrop,Gardenias revisits Faith Sullivan's most beloved characters fromThe Cape Ann, taking them from their hometown to new lives, new dreams, and new risks. Arlene has left her husband behind after he gambled away the money she'd saved to finally build the Cape Ann house of her and Lark's Depression-era dreams. As a new life takes shape in San Diego in a wartime housing project full of neighbors they know little about, Lark wonders, as does the reader, if a dream means losing everything of value or finally finding it. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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On the negative side: it always feels a bit cheap to me when physical, emotional, and sexual abuse are the crux of a story's conflicts; I'm ambivalent about whether "Gardenias" earned its usage of these unpleasant tropes. However, the end of the book wraps up in such a satisfying way that at the moment I'm willing to forgive its unpleasant moments. ( )