The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
Top 8 in Top 10 Best Magical Realism Novels
This fascinating generational epic is haunted by magical realism, poetic writing, and the sorrow and intensity of human love. Foolish love appears to be the Roux family's inheritance, which bodes ill for Ava Lavender, the family's most recent child. Ava, a typical girl in every other way, is born with bird wings.
Sixteen-year-old Ava journeys into the outside world, ill-prepared for what she could uncover and naive to the twisted goals of others, in an attempt to comprehend her unusual temperament and a growing yearning to fit in with her classmates. Others, such as the religious Nathaniel Sorrows, misidentify Ava as an angel and develops a crush on her until the night of the Summer Solstice celebration. The heavens open up that night, rain and feathers flood the air, and Ava's search and her family's tale reach a horrific climax.
Detailed information:
Author: Leslye Walton
Link to read: goodreads.com/book/show/18166936-the-strange-and-beautiful-sorrows-of-ava-lavender
Sixteen-year-old Ava journeys into the outside world, ill-prepared for what she could uncover and naive to the twisted goals of others, in an attempt to comprehend her unusual temperament and a growing yearning to fit in with her classmates. Others, such as the religious Nathaniel Sorrows, misidentify Ava as an angel and develops a crush on her until the night of the Summer Solstice celebration. The heavens open up that night, rain and feathers flood the air, and Ava's search and her family's tale reach a horrific climax.
Detailed information:
Author: Leslye Walton
Link to read: goodreads.com/book/show/18166936-the-strange-and-beautiful-sorrows-of-ava-lavender
