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Bookmark on DeliciousPublished: Aug. 14, 2010
Words: 66442 (approximate)
Language: English
Ebook description
The war in Viet Nam is a looming shadow as young Andy Anderson contemplates his place in life. When he meets intelligent and captivating Reeseanne McAuley and her physicist father, they begin to suspect that the eccentric Hagar Bixly, self-proclaimed guardian of the nearby woods, is involved in a mystery from beyond Earth that could alter their lives forever.Tags
literature, coming of age, science fiction, ecology, magic realism, alien visitors, mysterious doings, viet nam era, black helicopters, slipstream fictionAvailable ebook reading formats
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Review by:
LL Brown
on Sep. 30, 2010 :
This is a charming book with a lot of layers. On the surface, it seems to be a bildungsroman, about a high school boy who ponders his fate in the face of the Vietnam War. It is also a rumination on fear of the other, family, and the meaning of life. I wish I could tell you about the ending so you would be driven to read this book. Suffice it to say it took my breath away and brought tears to my eyes. The whole book jumped to a deeper level of meaning when I read the last page. Great book. Highly recommended.
(reviewed the day of purchase)