A Gathering Light
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Book Description
Mattie Gokey has a word for everything. She collects words, stores them up as a way of fending off the hard truths of her life, the truths that she can't write down in stories.
The fresh pain of her mother's death. The burden of raising her sisters while her father struggles over his brokeback farm. The mad welter of feelings Mattie has for handsome but dull Royal Loomis, who says he wants to... More
The fresh pain of her mother's death. The burden of raising her sisters while her father struggles over his brokeback farm. The mad welter of feelings Mattie has for handsome but dull Royal Loomis, who says he wants to... More
Book Information
Publisher | Bloomsbury USA Children's Books |
Binding | Paperback (25 editions) |
Reading Level | Uncategorized |
# of Pages | 464 |
ISBN-10 | 074756888X |
ISBN-13 | 978-0747568889 |
Publication Date | /2003 |
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1/25/2010 Mary Sandford said: I could not put this book down. Switching from the beginning of the story to near the end until the two times met really made the story compelling. I will be thinking about Mattie, Weaver, Emmie and Grace Brown for a long time.
tags: I recommend
tags: I recommend
9/19/2009 Nicole Redmond said: One of my all-time favorites ~ the reason I started reading historical fiction. Thank you Ms. Donnelly. I didn't want this one to end. I have read her adult novels, and feel the same with every one of them. A must read for any young woman.
tags: I recommend, Inspired me, I read
tags: I recommend, Inspired me, I read
6/24/2008 Kelly Sonnack said: Wonderful characters - you get to know this family and this community so intimately that small things are said and done that have such huge emotional resonance, you barely know what to do with yourself.
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tags: I read
11/22/2007 Patti Kurtz said: Lovely book, very poetically written-- and the author's a cool lady too!
tags: I recommend, Inspired me, I read
tags: I recommend, Inspired me, I read
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