by Carys Bray
A Song for Issy Bradley is a truly remarkable book. The characters are engaging. The story is tender and compelling. This is one of those books that is difficult to put down. As far as content and scope, it reminds me considerably of Oates’ We Were the Mulvaneys; there is that same sense of tragedy ...
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At the heart of the book, A Song for Issy Bradley by Carys Bray, is the idea of faith and the role it plays in moving on after a devastating, unexplainable loss such as the death of a child. The book does not imply a judgement as whether a right answer exists or what it may be. The book poses the qu...
I won this book in a goodreads giveaway (thank you goodreads!) and am glad to have had the opportunity to read it.Keeping with the theme of the title, there were two striking notes to this "song" book. The first, was the fallout in a family, when a young child dies. The second is the constraints o...
2.5 StarsA stroy about a mormon family and their struggles with life and faith. We read about a broken family hoping for miracles so they can carry on when their world falls apart.I think perhaps my expectations were too high when I began reading this novel. And while I didn't dislike it, it just d...
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