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Kya has been abandoned by everyone who ever loved her - her mother, her sisters and brothers, her father, the other people in a nearby town - everyone. That's just fine with her. She has been on her own since she was six, cooking, finding and selling mussels to get money for essentials, scrounging through her family's old clothing for covering. She's the town joke, spending only one day in school, l ...more
Kya has been abandoned by everyone who ever loved her - her mother, her sisters and brothers, her father, the other people in a nearby town - everyone. That's just fine with her. She has been on her own since she was six, cooking, finding and selling mussels to get money for essentials, scrounging through her family's old clothing for covering. She's the town joke, spending only one day in school, l ...more
What a book! There was so much suspense in this book that I had to put it down occasionally and just take a deep breath because I was holding my breath as I turned the pages. The story of Kia, a little girl who is abandoned by her family and who lives in the marshes of North Carolina, is heart-wrenching and sad, yet you find yourself being proud of her for her survival and for what she accomplishes. What happens to her later in her life is alternately joyous and tragic, though, and as you turn t
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Feb 04, 2020
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This was a quick and enjoyable read. Great characters and setting, and a decent enough mystery in the plot (although not really the centre of the story) to keep you turning the pages. There were a few awkward things that reminded me that this was the author’s first work of fiction - what I thought was a pretty inelegant use of poetry (at the end I finally understood why it was there, but it just seemed so shoved into the story), the need to describe all the food of every meal in detail, things l
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Just about everyone in our Book Club enjoyed this book, tho a few thought it was unrealistic that a small child could survive on her own. One father in our Book Club said his six year old can't even pour a bowl of cereal.
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1. WHY did the older siblings leave Kya?
I kept waiting to see why they left her behind. When the answer came, it wasn’t enough.
2. Was this ...more
Here are our Discussion Questions for this book. Feel free to respond, or to use them for your book club, if applicable.
SPOILER ALERTS BELOW
1. WHY did the older siblings leave Kya?
I kept waiting to see why they left her behind. When the answer came, it wasn’t enough.
2. Was this ...more
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