An exaggerated hype for a nice book.It has a certain grace for the setting and the style, it was like a pretty painting even in painful subjects. The touch has something of the fairy-tale (well, a girl born with wings..it's somehow fairy-tale!), feature which I like and don't like at the same time. ...
My grandmother fell in love three times before her nineteenth birthday. My mother found love with the neighbor boy when she was six. And I, I was born with wings, a misfit who didn't dare to expect something as grandiose as love. ...my story, like everyone's, begins with the past and a family tre...
4.5 stars?To be honest it took me a number of chapters to really get into this book. But once it grabbed me I became a fan and fell for the characters and the novel itself.First of all, the main character is introduced in the prologue and we are told she was born with wings. I was welcome to that as...
‘The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender’ is a title most apt. This is more than the winged girl- the story extends to everyone and everything that contributes to her making and yes, that covers their sorrow, as well. It’s sweet then not sweet, terrifying and then terrifyingly real. It’ll ...
This book is magical realism, but it takes that magic a bit further. The prose can be seen as literal or metaphorical or really both together. The book starts with Lavender telling the story, but really goes back to her great grandmother where all the strange things start to happen. All the stories ...
Ava Lavender narrates this remarkable account beginning in the 1900’s when her family arrived in America. With great detail you learn about the lives of her great-grandparents and their trials and accomplishments that they encountered. Where there is love, there is also pain and that pain runs thr...
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