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Larson is getting better and better. I found her other stuff to be good, but one was a bit hard to follow in it's magicness, and the other was very realistic, but not quite affecting. This is a lovely mix of the two.
Set in Nova Scotia, there are two parallel storylines - one in the late 1800s, one in modern day.
What I love about this is the ambiguity. Our primary character today is mistaken for a boy when she goes back to school. Her parents divorced a few years ago, and afterwards she was hom ...more
Set in Nova Scotia, there are two parallel storylines - one in the late 1800s, one in modern day.
What I love about this is the ambiguity. Our primary character today is mistaken for a boy when she goes back to school. Her parents divorced a few years ago, and afterwards she was hom ...more
This is the best that Hope Larson has ever been.
The story: Josephine and Tara are two girls separated by a couple hundred years. They live in the same house, Josephine in the late 1800s and Tara in modern day Nova Scotia. They share genes, a necklace, and the sort of eternal angst of crushing on boys, being a teenager, and conflicting with your folks. The two girls look almost identical, except Tara has cut her hair short. Their stories run in tandem in the novel, interspersed pages differentia ...more
The story: Josephine and Tara are two girls separated by a couple hundred years. They live in the same house, Josephine in the late 1800s and Tara in modern day Nova Scotia. They share genes, a necklace, and the sort of eternal angst of crushing on boys, being a teenager, and conflicting with your folks. The two girls look almost identical, except Tara has cut her hair short. Their stories run in tandem in the novel, interspersed pages differentia ...more
Dec 10, 2009
Sarah
marked it as maybe-someday
Jul 31, 2017
Leanna Hammond
marked it as to-read
