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Simon & Schuster
March 2015
On Sale: March 3, 2015
Featuring: Prudence Eleanor Vilkas
256 pages
ISBN: 1451657676
EAN: 9781451657678
Kindle: B00LD1S3NG
Hardcover / e-Book
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Fiction
From the author of The Handbook for Lightning Strike
Survivors, which Library Journal called, “ripe for Oprah or
fans of Elizabeth Berg or Anne Tyler,” comes a magical novel
about a family of women separated by oceans, generations,
and war, but connected by something much greater—the gift of
wings. On March 29, 1973, Prudence Eleanor Vilkas was born with a
pair of wings molded to her back. Considered a birth defect,
her wings were surgically removed, leaving only the ghost of
them behind. At fifteen years old, confused and unmoored, Prudence meets
her long-estranged Lithuanian grandfather and discovers a
miraculous lineage beating and pulsing with past Lithuanian
bird-women, storytellers with wings dragging the dirt,
survivors perched on radio towers, lovers lit up like
fireworks, and heroes disguised as everyday men and women.
Prudence sets forth on a quest to discover her ancestors, to
grapple with wings that only one other person can see, and
ultimately, to find out where she belongs. Above Us Only Sky spans the 1863 January Uprising against
Russian Tsarist rule in Eastern Europe to the fall of the
Berlin Wall, and Lithuania gaining its independence in 1991.
It is a story of mutual understanding between the old and
young; it is a love story; a story of survival, and most
importantly a story about where we belong in the world. This
“is a raw, beautiful, unforgettable book” (Lydia Netzer,
bestselling author of Shine, Shine, Shine).
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