Christina Meldrum
Christina M. Meldrum is the author of the award-winning novel MADAPPLE and of AMARYLLIS IN BLUEBERRY, forthcoming in February 2011 from Gallery, an imprint of Simon & Schuster.
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Christina M. Meldrum is the author of the award-winning novel MADAPPLE and of AMARYLLIS IN BLUEBERRY, forthcoming in February 2011 from Gallery, an imprint of Simon & Schuster.
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Christina Meldrum's Books
This must have been on my list because it takes place in Maine. Little did I know it would be populated by over-educated evangelical totally batshit Danes. The discussions about poisonous herbs and gnostic gospels were kind of interesting but it was all a little too Lars Von Triers for me.
Really makes you think about relationships and communication. Great story.
Apart from a few annoyingly unanswered questions, this book was simply fantastic. I had been misinformed about Madapple and believed it to be a book mostly about teen pregnancy, but though the book does contain this, it is actually about much more exciting stuff. It's realistic fiction and yet there...
I knew this was going to be dark, but I wasn't expecting this: Aslaug's story is dark, twisted, confusing, sad and frustrating.. but through all of it, I was stuck. I wanted, no, needed, to know how it would all turn out. Is this YA? I think not. She's young but her story takes things to a whole ot...
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