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The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
By:Leslye Walton
Published on 2014-03-25 by Candlewick Press

A 2015 William C. Morris Debut Award Finalist. 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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Don't you sort of pine (secretly, in the marrow of your gut's merry druthers) for the good ol'times of Goodreads (known then as GodFearingGoodlyReading.com) when all reviews were evenly plainspoken, only utilitarian, unpretentious, and -- especially else -- dull, boring, dull? Do not you sort of loathe when people say'don't you believe in this manner or feel like that'in an attempt to goad you equally psychologically and grammatically into agreeing with them? In the language of ABBA: I actually do, I really do, I do(, I actually do, I do). Well, as the interwebs is just a earth by which days gone by stands shoulder-to-shoulder with today's (and with fetish porn), we are able to revisit the past in its inviolable presentness any moment we wish. Or at least until this amazing site ultimately tanks. Contemplate (won't you?) Matt Nieberle's review of Macbeth in their entirety. I've bound it with a heavy rope and drawn it here for the perusal. (Please recognize that many a sic are intended in the following reviews.) its really complicated and ridiculous! why cant we be reading like Romeo and Juliet?!?! at the very least that guide is excellent! There you've it. Refreshingly, not a evaluation published in one of many witch's voices or alluding to Hillary and Bill Clinton or discussing the reviewer's first period. Just a primal scream unleashed to the dark wilderness of the cosmos.Yes, Mr. Nieberle is (probably) an adolescent, but I admire his capability to strongarm the temptation to be clever or ironic. (Don't you?) He speaks the native language of the idk generation with an economy and an understanding that renders his convictions much more emphatic. Here's MICHAEL's overview of the same play. You could'know'MICHAEL; he is the'Problems Architect'only at Goodreads. (A problematic title itself in that it implies he designs problems... that will be the case, for all I know.) This book shouldn't be required reading... reading plays that that you don't want to see is awful. Reading a play kinda sucks to begin with, if it was meant to be read, then it will be a novel, not a play. Along with that the teach had us students browse the play aloud (on person for every single character for a couple pages). None folks had see the play before. None of us wanted to see it (I made the mistake of taking the'easy'english class for 6 years). The teacher picked students that appeared to be they weren't paying attention. This compounded to make me pretty much hate reading classics for something similar to 10 years (granted macbeth alone wasn't the problem). I also hate iambic pentameter. Pure activism there. STOP the mandatory reading of plays. It's wrong, morally and academically. And it also can definitely fuck up your GPA. There's no wasteful extravagance in this editorial... no fanfare, no fireworks, no linked photos of half-naked, oiled-up, big-bosomed starlets, no invented dialogues between the writer and the review-writer. It's simple and memorable. Being required to read plays is wrong, and if you require anyone, under duress, to read a play you then have sinned and are likely to hell, if you rely on hell. If not, you're likely to the DMV. I am also fed up with all you smug spelling snobs. You damnable fascists together with your new-fangled dictionaries and your fancy-schmancy spell check. Sometimes the passionate immediacy of a note overcomes its spelling limitations. Also, in this age whenever we are taught to respect each other's differences, this indicates offensively egocentric and mean-spirited you may anticipate others tokowtow on your petty linguistic rules. Artsy expression is going to cost-free on its own it doesn't matter how you are trying to be able to shackle it. 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