num_pages: 240
description: Following her brother's death and her mother's emotional breakdown Laura now lives on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in a lonely townhouse she shares with her old-world strict often querulous grandparents. But the arrangement may be temporary. The quiet awkward teenager has been getting into trouble at home and has been expelled from her high school for throwing a record album at a popular girl who bullied her. When Christmas is over and the new year begins Laura may find herself at boarding school in Montreal. Nearly unmoored from reality through her panic and submerged grief Laura is startled when a handsome swan boy with only one wing lands on her roof. Hiding him from her ever-bickering grandparents Laura tries to build the swan boy a wing so he can fly home. But the task is too difficult to accomplish herself. Little does Laura know that her struggle to find help for her new friend parallels that of her grandparents who are desperate for a distant relatives financial aid to save the family store. As he explores themes of class isolation family and the dangerous yearning to be saved by a power greater than ourselves Gregory Maguire conjures a haunting beautiful tale of magical realism that illuminates one young womans heartbreak and hope as she begins the inevitable journey to adulthood.
language: English
title: A Wild Winter Swan
publisher: William Morrow