num_pages: 301
description: Magical realism lyrical prose and the pain and passion of human love haunt this hypnotic generational saga.Foolish love appears to be the Roux family birthright an ominous forecast for its most recent progeny Ava Lavender. Avain all other ways a normal girlis born with the wings of a bird.In a quest to understand her peculiar disposition and a growing desire to fit in with her peers sixteen-year old Ava ventures into the wider world ill-prepared for what she might discover and nave to the twisted motives of others. Others like the pious Nathaniel Sorrows who mistakes Ava for an angel and whose obsession with her grows until the night of the Summer Solstice celebration.That night the skies open up rain and feathers fill the air and Avas quest and her familys saga build to a devastating crescendo.First-time author Leslye Walton has constructed a layered and unforgettable mythology of what it means to be born with hearts that are tragically exquisitely human.
language: English
title: The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
publisher: Candlewick Press