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Nov 03, 2008
Book Concierge
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it was amazing
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5***** and a ❤
This novel is packed with subjects for discussion: religion, race, mother figures, forgiveness. One of the best books I've read.
Lily is 14, her mother having died when Lily was 4. Her father, T Ray, is hard, mean , unreasonable. Her black nanny Rosaleen loves Lily but still, there is a void. When Rosaleen runs into some legal trouble, Lily and Rosaleen flee to Tiburon SC because Lily had found a picture of a Black Madonna with that city written on it among her mother's things. The ...more
This novel is packed with subjects for discussion: religion, race, mother figures, forgiveness. One of the best books I've read.
Lily is 14, her mother having died when Lily was 4. Her father, T Ray, is hard, mean , unreasonable. Her black nanny Rosaleen loves Lily but still, there is a void. When Rosaleen runs into some legal trouble, Lily and Rosaleen flee to Tiburon SC because Lily had found a picture of a Black Madonna with that city written on it among her mother's things. The ...more
4.5 STARS
"Lily has grown up believing she accidentally killed her mother when she was four. She not only has her own memory of holding the gun, but her father's account of the event. Now fourteen, she yearns for her mother, and for forgiveness. Living on a peach farm in South Carolina with her father, she has only one friend: Rosaleen, a black servant whose sharp exterior hides a tender heart. South Carolina in the sixties is a place where segregation is still considered a cause worth fighting f ...more
"Lily has grown up believing she accidentally killed her mother when she was four. She not only has her own memory of holding the gun, but her father's account of the event. Now fourteen, she yearns for her mother, and for forgiveness. Living on a peach farm in South Carolina with her father, she has only one friend: Rosaleen, a black servant whose sharp exterior hides a tender heart. South Carolina in the sixties is a place where segregation is still considered a cause worth fighting f ...more
Jan 12, 2023
Theresa
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Sep 29, 2014
debbicat *made of stardust*
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🐝“I realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides behind the fabric of our poor, browbeat days, shining brightly, and we don't even know it.”🐝
What a lovely story about family, love, and mother/daughter relationships set in 1960s South Carolina. Lily is a young teen who struggles with the loss of her mother. When her friend, Rosaleen, is beaten by a group of racists in their small South Carolina town, the two run away. While in a local grocery ...more
What a lovely story about family, love, and mother/daughter relationships set in 1960s South Carolina. Lily is a young teen who struggles with the loss of her mother. When her friend, Rosaleen, is beaten by a group of racists in their small South Carolina town, the two run away. While in a local grocery ...more
Jun 17, 2019
Maureen
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Jul 20, 2022
Sarah Brown
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