Driftwood - Tapa blanda

""Driftwood" is a pleasant novel. . . The stories told by Theo are interesting and compellingly told folktales.
Recommended"
-- "CM Magazine"

Praise for The Glory Wind by Valerie Sherrard
Set on the Canadian prairie, as was "Tumbleweed Skies" (2009), Sherrard s latest movingly documents 11-year-old Luke s coming of age in 1946 as he comes to deeply love his new neighbor, Gracie, also 11. Gracie, endearingly spontaneous and affectionate, is the daughter of Raedine, who sets small-town tongues wagging when she takes a job at the local hotel, also a brothel, and people discover that her child is illegitimate. Luke and Gracie, in their innocence, initially have no idea why the townspeople and their children turn on Gracie. When she s ostracized at school, Luke becomes her defender, a difficult position after their loving teacher is fired for trying to protect the child from classmates bullying. Yet Gracie seems almost ethereally indifferent to her situation. While Luke s parents don t shun Raedine, neither will they explain what s behind the prejudice she and Gracie encounter, leaving him to explore the possibilities. Chapters begin with information about tornadoes, but it isn t clear until the climax that this foreshadowing is more than just a symbolic representation of the town s stormy bias. Luke s first-person narration is fresh and emotionally true, charting his growing awareness of his own human failure to live up to Gracie s tender yet believable goodness. This haunting depiction of small-mindedness will leave readers wondering, as Luke comes to, about Gracie s true nature: heavenly child or angel? (starred review, Kirkus Reviews)"
"Driftwood is a pleasant novel. . . The stories told by Theo are interesting and compellingly told folktales.
Recommended"
-- CM Magazine