pickThis was a beautiful, poignant read, bringing up so many struggles a sweet but tough kid can have in a small town: being Japanese-Canadian when everyone else is white, the survivor of a family tragedy, a bookworm, the younger sister of a queer sibling. Kobayashi does an amazing job of tapping into the main character's quirky Harriet-the-Spy soul, as well as portraying the Prairie context.
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Tentative #Booked2023 selections, depending a bit on what arrives with #AuldLangSpine! Very cool prompts here--thank you!
Got some more #audiostitching done while I finished PRAIRIE OSTRICH. I‘m glad I approached this book during one of those rare periods where I can tolerate purple prose, because I was most definitely here for this story of sibling love, grief, racism, and homophobia in 1970s Alberta. The writing, on the other hand… well, Kobayashi doesn‘t ACTUALLY find a simile or a metaphor for everything, but she does it often enough that it feels that way.
All her life, Egg has heard about the three-in-one God, the everything, all-you-can-eat God. God is Great. God is Good. Mrs. MacDonnell says you can see God in a beautiful flower. A flower's a flower. Egg thinks, shouldn't you see God in all flowers and not just the pretty ones?
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