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A Gathering Light

A Gathering Light

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Her best friend, Weaver, is Black, and he also wants a higher education, but people keep foiling his plans too because it's the early twentieth century and people are racist fucks. Interwoven with this true-life crime story is the equally compelling tale of Mattie's growth to maturity, as she struggles, against a backdrop of harsh farm life - beautifully evoked - and adolescent longings to achieve her ambition of attending university in New York. In a series of parallels we get Grace and her rich lover, ‘Miss Wilcox’ the disguised poet and her rich husband and Mattie with the boy next door. Set in 1906 and built around the real life murder of a young woman in a popular holiday resort this novel is touching, surprising, moving and compelling.

It is excellently written, features a strong and likable heroine and perfectly captures her hopes and fears in an era so different to our own. Being well into my twenties, I'm actually surprised this book is considered a young adult book as I never thought of it like that while I was reading it. The characters in the book are diverse : Weaver Smith, Matties friend (he and his mother are the only black people in the area); Royal Loomis , the son of a neighbouring farmer and sweet on Mattie; Minnie , Matties best friend , who is pregnant with twins; Emmie Hubbard a widow with several children but most have different fathers and, and. In fact, if you read both and compare then, you'll be seriously shocked the same author penned both books. Because I savored every single word of it and only fell even more in love with it, so much that it’s officially my No.On July 12, 1906, the body of a young woman named Grace Brown was pulled from the waters of Big Moose Lake in the Adirondack Mountains. Her dilemmas and choices are quietly reflected in the life of a young woman found drowned in a lake, a woman that Mattie only gets to know through reading her letters. Something I wanted to add: I've only read one other book by Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution, and it's amazing to see how different the two books are in voice. This historic YA novel, set in 1906, weaves in the true crime story of young and hopeful Grace Brown, who was cruelly drowned and murdered by her lover, and who left behind a legacy of love letters, so sad and tragic.

Random things I loved: Mattie’s word-of-the-day ritual and the "word wars" she fought with her friend Weaver, Cook the cook, Miss Wilcox’s library (so jealous) and the way the girls dealt with the guy from table six. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.Chose this book after reading Tea Rose which I loved but Gathering Light was slow and nearly gave up on it after a few chapters, it did get better however but found it well written but bland and would not pass it on to my friends.



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