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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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