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Although “Whale Song” is told in flashback, it never feels like that. Early on in my reading, I wrote that this was “a beautifully written coming-of-age novel and more”. The voice of Sarah Richardson grows with all the experiences that she faces and she reacts to events as anyone her age would, from bullying at school – a well-crafted case of reverse racism – to her first kiss, then the tragedy that rocks her life, the assisted suicide of her mother, and how that impacts on the years after her m
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This novel is the kind of beautiful that's heart-wrenching in nature, the kind that makes you hold your eyes open to dry them. I was drawn in by the voice, which starts with Sarah at age eleven, and I really felt like I was seeing the world through an eleven-year-old's eyes. The way First Nations mythology is woven into the story is the lining on the cake.
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