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Sauerwein's atmospheric narrative, set ten years after the Civil War, explores turning points in the lives of a dozen characters and, in thirty short chapters, unveils their interlocking relationships. Like the post-bellum South in which they live, these characters need to reimagine their ties, including family ties, in order to thrive. Sauerwein engages her memorable characters in an elegantly crafted web of mysteries.
Reviewer: Joanna Rudge Long
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
November, 2014
133 pp.
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| November, 2003
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TradeISBN 1-886910-90-1$$15.95
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Eloise must marry, as her father wills, a man twice her age. Hoping to cheer his wife, Robert summons the young troubadour Thomas, and in the time it takes Thomas to relate the tragedy of Tristan and Isolde, he and Eloise fall passionately in love. Spare, lyrical, true to its time yet universal in its portrayal of love, loyalty, and loss, the story is as interesting for its similarities to Cushman's Catherine, Called Birdy as for its differences--a sweet, sad tale to savor and treasure.
Reviewer: Joanna Rudge Long
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
January, 2004
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