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The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
Leslye Walton
Candlewick Press
March 2014
On Sale: March 25, 2014
Featuring: Ava Lavender
320 pages
ISBN: 0763665665
EAN: 9780763665661
Kindle: B00IASYIQQ
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Magical realism, lyrical prose, and the pain and passion
of human love haunt this hypnotic generational saga.
Foolish love appears to be the Roux family
birthright, an ominous forecast for its most recent progeny,
Ava Lavender. Ava — in all other ways a normal girl — is
born with the wings of a bird. In a quest to understand her
peculiar disposition and a growing desire to fit in with her
peers, sixteen-year old Ava ventures into the wider world,
ill-prepared for what she might discover and naive to the
twisted motives of others. Others like the pious Nathaniel
Sorrows, who mistakes Ava for an angel and whose obsession
with her grows until the night of the summer solstice
celebration. That night, the skies open up, rain and
feathers fill the air, and Ava’s quest and her family’s saga
build to a devastating crescendo. First-time author Leslye
Walton has constructed a layered and unforgettable mythology
of what it means to be born with hearts that are tragically,
exquisitely human.
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