Loved itthis is such a beautiful magical realism story and I loved the writing of it and how inventive it was and that it transported me to such an odd world and it made me feel things I wasn't expecting to
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The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender (2014)
Others: Overwhelmingly positive Born with bird wings, Ava Lavender is well aware that love has long made fools of her family. When pious Nathaniel Sorrows mistakes her bird wings for angel wings, 16-year-old Ava faces the man's growing obsession, which comes to a head with the rain and feathers that fly through the air during a nighttime summer solstice celebration.
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- 9781406348088
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- 300 pages
Genres: fantasy, young adult
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Loved itthe strange and beautiful sorrows of ava lavender i just thought was so beautiful and i still do it's a book that i own on my bookshelf i will never get rid of it
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Loved itit's such a beautiful book with so many incredible messages and so many scenes that I just think about to this day plus the writing is just so whimsical and exquisite and I absolutely adore everything about this book
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Loved itthis is just a beautifully written book it's phenomenal it's kind of a contemporary but it's more like a magical realism contemporary with heavy leaning on the magical realism
Loved itthis is some of the most beautiful writing I have ever read and this is the only book that she has written and I need more of her writing in my life