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Young adult novels are usually not my thing, but I’m a big fan of Connie Lacy’s fiction (this is my third). Like The Time Telephone and VisionSight, A Daffodil for Angie is exceptionally well written. It’s about coming of age in the turbulent, complicated, scary Southern United States of the 1960’s. We meet Angie, the novel’s first-person protagonist, being reminded by her mom about cheerleader tryouts as she embarks on her first day of high school. And yes, the novel has plenty of the requisite
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A brilliant read!
'A Daffodil For Angie' drops the reader right into the social upheaval of the 1960s, in which Angie must try to make sense of her life. Against the backdrop of feminism, the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights movement, and integration of negro students into schools, the Vietnam War, and the craze for British fashion and music, Lacy has woven a story that fits right into the world of 'Mississippi Burning' and 'To Sir With Love', and yet she makes it intimately personal.
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'A Daffodil For Angie' drops the reader right into the social upheaval of the 1960s, in which Angie must try to make sense of her life. Against the backdrop of feminism, the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights movement, and integration of negro students into schools, the Vietnam War, and the craze for British fashion and music, Lacy has woven a story that fits right into the world of 'Mississippi Burning' and 'To Sir With Love', and yet she makes it intimately personal.
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Feb 02, 2018
Michael Gardner
marked it as to-read
