This image tips readers off that all will be well in the end, though these branches be bent and even broken many times. But Ava faces them-even though her mother and grandmother could not-and her sacrifice brings a healing balm to the entire family.Īn ancient, leafy tree sketched at the book's start traces the lineage from Beauregard Roux, a beautiful, beefy phrenologist and his petite wife, Maman, on up through Ava Lavender and her twin, Henry. Now 70 years old, Ava embodies all the sorrows and experiences of those who came before her, as if the wings she was born with might lift her up and away from life's disappointments. To my great misfortune, I was once mistaken for an angel," Ava begins in the prologue. Some considered me a monster, a mutation. "To many, I was myth incarnate, the embodiment of a most superb legend, a fairy tale. In a sweeping intergenerational story infused with magical realism, debut author Leslye Walton tethers grand themes of love and loss to the earthbound sensibility of Ava Lavender as she recollects one life-altering summer as a teenager.
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