false<![CDATA[One Foot Wrong]]>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1221870905m/3604746.jpg36047463A child is imprisoned in a house by her reclusive religious parents. Hester has never seen the outside world; her companions are Cat, Spoon, Door, Handle, Broom, and they all speak to her. Her imagination is informed by one book, an illustrated child's bible, and its imagery forms the sole basis for her capacity to make poetic connection.
One day Hester takes a brave Alice in Wonderland trip into the forbidden outside (at the behest of Handle - 'turn me turn me'), and this overwhelming encounter with light and sky and sunshine is a marvel to her. From this moment on, Hester learns the concept of the secret, and not telling, and the world becomes something that fills her with feeling as if she is a vessel, empty and bottomless for need of it.
The story told by Hester in One Foot Wrong is often dark and terrible, but the sheer blazing brilliance of her language and the imagery that illuminates the pages make this novel an exhilarating, enlightening and joyous act of faith. The stars shine brightest out of the deepest dark.3647469book172008One Foot Wrongtotal:28|5:8|4:10|3:5|2:4|1:1|28104851730falsetrueSun Oct 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009Wed Oct 07 08:18:19 -0700 2009Wed Oct 07 08:20:03 -0700 2009
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51falsefalseWed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009Tue Aug 04 23:46:45 -0700 2009Tue Aug 04 23:48:44 -0700 2009 After penning several children’s and YA stories, One Foot Wrong is Sofie Laguna’s first adult novel. And yet, like a curious playmate out of juvenile literature, Laguna’s crisp language, full of bright and shiny imagery, beckons the reader inward and h...more...]]>
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Being plunged head first into the abstract brain of a young child is a surprisingly exhilarating experience, perfectly captured in Sofie Laguna’s novel One Foot Wrong....more...]]>
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