Friday, April 2, 2010

Friday Finds - April 2, 2010



Friday Finds hosted by Should Be Reading asks us to share what great books we heard about or discovered in the past week.


My find today is The Rope Walk by Carrie Brown.

From Amazon.com:

The Rope Walk brings us the dazzling story of a pivotal summer in the life of Alice, a redheaded tomboy and motherless girl who is beloved and protected by her five older brothers and her widower father, a professor of Shakespeare. On Memorial Day, at her tenth birthday party in the garden of her Vermont village home, Alice meets two people unlike any she’s known before. Theo is a mixed-race New York City kid visiting his white grandparents for the summer. Kenneth is a cosmopolitan artist with AIDS who has come home to convalesce with his middle-aged sister. Alice and Theo form an instant bond and, almost as quickly, find themselves drawn into the orbit of the magisterial Kenneth. When the children begin a daily routine of reading aloud to the artist, who is losing his eyesight, they discover the journals of Lewis and Clark and decide to embark on their own wilderness adventure: they plan and secretly build a “rope walk” through the woods for Kenneth and in the process learn the first of many hard truths about the way adults see the world, no matter that they are often wrong.

The great gift of The Rope Walk is its exquisitely poised writing. Alice’s narrative is a profound experience of innocence, of perception balanced between childhood and adulthood. The flying spark of new friendship, the first intimation of adult love, the consolation of devotion, which allow Alice and Theo to shed light in the midst of darkness and to find joy in mutual understanding: these glistening threads are drawn together in a timeless story–profound, seductive, wise, and moving, from first to last.

What did YOU find today?




8 comments:

Kris said...

That sounds like a really good one...it's the first I hear of it actually.

Alayne said...

What an interesting premise. Nice pick. My Find is at The Crowded Leaf.

Darlene said...

Great find Missy. This sounds good.

Amanda Leigh said...

This sounds great! Here are my finds: Not-Really-Southern Vamp Chick

Unknown said...

Oh, this sounds wonderful! And the cover *gasp* spectaluar! I hadn't heard about this one either, but I'll definitely keep a look out for it now.

Happy Easter to you too, Missy!

Tribute Books said...

Will definitely add to my list. Thanks!

Laurel-Rain Snow said...

This one sounds wonderfully moving and memorable!

Thanks for sharing.

Tales of Whimsy said...

Good choice.

I just love your header.

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