My advice in reading this rich, magical story is to simply read each chapter and not attempt to figure out who is related to whom. “The moths repeatedly hit against the window, convinced they were headed in the right direction, heedless of the wire screens that stopped their flight.” However, sometimes it just doesn’t work out. History repeats itself in the lives of these townspeople with their need to love and be loved. She wanted to be known, but no one knew her.” “That was the country she was in most of the time, a place where people heard what she said but not what she meant. Some kind of emptiness, as if he had been turned into a shadow on the night of his accident, as if he has snow in his veins rather than blood.” The universal theme of loneliness haunts you as you watch this town grow. “Sara told me that a women who could rescue herself was a woman who would never be in need.”ĭon’t we all recognize that “Those who didn’t move forward were condemned to their miserable fates.” We also learn what separates survivors from victims. “… you had to be ready to receive what you were given.” “Salvation was mysterious, wasn’t that always right?” Just like all of us, the characters in this book learn how evil and justice can live together. In the chapter, The Bear House, we read, “She would rather die trying to live than simply give up like the rest of them.” The story opens with the relationship between nature and survival.
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