The Broken Bridge
At 16, Ginny finds that her love of painting connects her to the artistic Haitian mother she never knew and eases the isolation she feels as the only mixed-race teen in her Welsh village. When she learns she has a half-brother by her father's first marriage, her world is shattered. Ginny embarks...
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At 16, Ginny finds that her love of painting connects her to the artistic Haitian mother she never knew and eases the isolation she feels as the only mixed-race teen in her Welsh village. When she learns she has a half-brother by her father's first marriage, her world is shattered. Ginny embarks on a quest for the truth that will allow her to claim her artistic heritage--and face her father.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780679847151 (0679847154)
Publish date: November 15th 1994
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
Disclaimer: ARC via Netgalley. Open Road is doing the kindle edition of this previously released work. Ginny has a problem. It’s a huge problem. She doesn’t know a great many things. She lives with her father in a town in Wales, and she is one of the few people of color in the ...
The main character Ginny is 15 and lives in a small seaside village in North Wales with her father. Her Haitian mother is dead, and despite her fathers many ‘breakfast ladies’ (women who appeared at breakfast, after spending the night). None of them stick around long enough to become family. Ginny i...
Well written coming of age story. With a pinch of fantasy. A heroine, Ginny (16) is likeable, realistic and strong female character.
I enjoyed it being set in Wales - and enjoyed the story and the characters.
This book is about a 16 year old girl named Ginny Howard. Ginny lives with her widowed dad in north wales. Ginny and her dad get along very well, it's almost like they have their own little private world just for them, but one day things change. Ginny finds out that her dad has another child, a son....
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