Checking out past Man Booker Prize winners and really loving the unique plot and juxtaposition of different styles in this one!
Checking out past Man Booker Prize winners and really loving the unique plot and juxtaposition of different styles in this one!
The Library of Congress AMERICA READS exhibit.
"When I lost my sight, Werner, people said I was brave. When my father left, people said I was brave. But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same?"
"It is a universally acknowledged truth that high school sucks. In fact, high school is where we are first introduced to the basic existential question of life: How is it possible to exist in a place that sucks so bad?"
"There's always a person for every book. And a book for every person." ???
"Anger is supposed to be "unfeminine," so we suppress it - until it overflows ...depression is anger turned inward; thus women are twice as likely to be depressed."
"I want to unpack and reimagine what a truly free, powerful female heroine would look like... Who is she? What world does she live in? And, most important of all...why don't we see more of her?"
"All of the scraps seemed important, when considered long enough: the station the radio was tuned to in Mitch's kitchen, the number and depth of the stab wounds. How the shadows might have flickered on that particular car driving up that particular road."
Can't wait to dive into this one over the long weekend!
"Long after the firefly had disappeared, the trail of its light remained inside me, it's pale, faint glow hovering on and on in the thick darkness behind my eyelids like a lost soul."
