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Cargando... A Month of Sundayspor Ruth White
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I was really excited for this book, because I thought it was going to be an interesting look at religion. While I still think it had its merits, there were definitely aspects that took away from the book for me. I found the time difficult to place, because the book discusses people celebrating the country's centennial while also talking about TVs. I think perhaps they meant bicentenial? I'm not sure. I also thought the ending was just...bad. Delightful and insightful. When April Garnet is dumped at the home of her aunt -- a person she never met, she is down right angry at her mother. Feeling abandoned, she refused to take calls or respond to letters written to her by her mother. As her mother searches for work in Florida, April Garnet lives in Black River, Virginia. Soon, April learns to find security in the warm family atmosphere and for the first time in her life she feels as though she belongs. Attending various church services with her Aunt, she realizes that her Aunt is in search of something. Later, she learns that her Aunt is in search of health and to be free of the cancer that is growing. There is a happy ending, however, I was disappointed in the fact that the author crafted a well written story but felt the need to add a few unnecessary pages in a speedy ending.
Fourteen-year-old Garnet tells readers on page one that before she was born, her dad left her mother, Betty Sue, for a carnival singer. Life hasn't been easy, and when Betty decides to join a friend in Florida, Garnet understands the appeal of starting over. What she doesn't understand, though, is why she gets stuck with her father's family folks she has never met while Betty Sue is off making a fresh start. At first, Garnet is as unhappy about the situation as some of her relatives seem to be. But Aunt June treats Garnet like the daughter she never had, and soon enough, Garnet begins to feel like a member of a real family, something she has never had. As in her previous books, White captures life in small-town America; here, it's Black Rock, Virginia, in the 1950s. Expanding one's emotional life, the work of teens, is beautifully captured here, and Garnet's hard-won success will reach across the decades to today's readers.
In the summer of 1956 while her mother is in Florida searching for a job, fourteen-year-old April Garnet Rose, who has never met her father, stays with her terminally ill aunt in Virginia and accompanies her as she visits different churches, looking for God. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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The best way to sum up this book would be with: "I don't think we get any easy answers in this life. All we get is questions" (pg.167).
April (or Garnet) was a well written character, with thoughts that are understandable (logical) and relatable, and with a personality that I favor. This was a sweet story, a quick read, and one that teaches you a bit about life's many mysteries. ( )