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Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner One of TIME Magazine's 100 Best Young Adult Books of All Time
Borders 2004 Original Voices Award Winner
Named a Best Book of 2003 by Publishers Weekly, Booklist, School Library Journal, The Irish Times, The Times (London), The Financial Times and The Albany Times-Union.
Sixteen-year-old Mattie Gokey has big dreams but little hope of seeing them come true. Desperate for money, she takes a job at the Glenmore, where hotel guest Grace Brown entrusts her with the task of burning a secret bundle of letters. But when Grace's drowned body is fished from the lake, Mattie discovers that the letters could reveal the grim truth behind a murder.
Set in 1906 against the backdrop of the murder that inspired Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy, Jennifer Donnelly's astonishing debut novel effortlessly weaves romance, history, and a murder mystery into something moving, and real, and wholly original.
Includes a reader's guide and an interview with the author.
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first of all, it said in the blurb that this was historical fiction with romance and a murder mystery - in my opinion it wasn't a romantic at all! also, the mystery only played a very very very small role and i think the novel could have easily done without it. i enjoyed this book as a story in an atmospheric historical setting, about a young heroine who is trying to find her place in the world. it was a story about the struggles of being a woman in rural america in 1906. at times i really felt for the main character, mattie, and ultimately the story is very inspiring, but sometimes i lost interest. i loved weaver and lou and emily and i would have liked to learn more about them and grace's letters didn't really draw me in as they should have. still a good read!
Description
Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner One of TIME Magazine's 100 Best Young Adult Books of All Time
Borders 2004 Original Voices Award Winner
Named a Best Book of 2003 by Publishers Weekly, Booklist, School Library Journal, The Irish Times, The Times (London), The Financial Times and The Albany Times-Union.
Sixteen-year-old Mattie Gokey has big dreams but little hope of seeing them come true. Desperate for money, she takes a job at the Glenmore, where hotel guest Grace Brown entrusts her with the task of burning a secret bundle of letters. But when Grace's drowned body is fished from the lake, Mattie discovers that the letters could reveal the grim truth behind a murder.
Set in 1906 against the backdrop of the murder that inspired Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy, Jennifer Donnelly's astonishing debut novel effortlessly weaves romance, history, and a murder mystery into something moving, and real, and wholly original.
Includes a reader's guide and an interview with the author.
Book Information
Posts
first of all, it said in the blurb that this was historical fiction with romance and a murder mystery - in my opinion it wasn't a romantic at all! also, the mystery only played a very very very small role and i think the novel could have easily done without it. i enjoyed this book as a story in an atmospheric historical setting, about a young heroine who is trying to find her place in the world. it was a story about the struggles of being a woman in rural america in 1906. at times i really felt for the main character, mattie, and ultimately the story is very inspiring, but sometimes i lost interest. i loved weaver and lou and emily and i would have liked to learn more about them and grace's letters didn't really draw me in as they should have. still a good read!