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Santa Rosa
Santa Rosa | Wendy McGrath
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What is real when seen through the eyes of a child? When does the harshness of reality transform idyllic memories? The author seeks the answers to these questions as she tries to make sense of the disintegration of her parents' marriage - a process echoed by the slow disintegration of their neighbourhood.
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shawnmooney
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https://youtu.be/4MpH7Ueett8?si=J--LZHkWF5CSzKj8

#shortyseptember
#strayaseptember

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Santa Rosa by Wendy McGrath

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LeahBergen “The Buddy Reader From Hell”? Are you talking about me here? 🤣 1y
shawnmooney @LeahBergen No way! You‘re the one from heaven! 😘 14mo
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Lindy
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"Her mother kept the strawberry extract in the medicine cabinet and the girl liked to open the cabinet door and just look at it sometimes. This clear beautiful red in a glass bottle. She did not think it tasted anything like strawberries though. It was bitter. It stung her throat and stayed on her tongue like a lie." #childprotagonists

readinginthedark What a great quote! 8y
Lindy @readinginthedark I know, right? McGrath does a great job with the close third person perspective of a young child. 8y
Dragon My grandpa swore by extract of wild strawberry 🍓it really doesn't taste good 🐉 8y
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Lindy
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Vignettes, almost prose poetry - vividly evokes mid-20th century in a working class neighbourhood in Edmonton, Canada - told mostly through a child's eyes - the disintegration of a marriage. Melancholic beauty.

badnorthern Wow, I'll have to order this 8y
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Lindy
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What do you do on her feast day? Would Saint Rose visit the neighbourhood? the girl asked.
No she's been dead a long time now her friend said way more than 10 years but you can still pray to her and she might even answer you. Candles help.
But the girl wasn't allowed to light matches.

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Lindy
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A mug of green tea and a few more pages of my book before heading out to the ballet this evening. (Need the tea to keep me up for a late night!) #booksandtea

TheCanuckReader I have that mug too :) 8y
rabbitprincess Nice tea cosy! 😀 8y
Lindy @rabbitprincess Tea cosy is from a charity shop in Dunedin, NZ. It's a memento I use every day. 8y
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Lindy
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eat one straight from the garden rub the dirt away with her hands dirt actually part of the taste of the thing itself the dirt tastes like the carrot carrot like the dirt everything that grows underground carries that taste with it she would leave the taste of earth on whatever she ate

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Lindy
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I've pulled out all the flags marking passages in The Parcel. Now I'll see if they have enough stickiness left for my next book, which is for a book club on Wednesday.