My review is posted.
In short? I LOVED The Year the Swallows Came Early It happily joins my list of best of the best.
If you want to find out why, go read the review.
If you just want to trust me and buy the book, go ahead and do that.
Be sure to come back tomorrow to find out how to win a copy of this lovely book.
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Oh and I’m back to add something. Everyone else is giving a favorite line. I can’t pick a favorite line or picture since there were so many. But there is one that tugs at my heart. Groovy is talking to her mother about how her father betrayed her. She remembers a dandelion her father stepped on and crushed earlier in the day:
“He didn’t watch where he was going,” I said. Tears rolled down my cheeks. “He ruined it Mama. He didn’t watch and now it’s ruined.” And I started crying like there was no tomorrow. But it wasn’t the dandelion that made me so sad. It was how I was like the dandelion, minding my own business, waiting to grow and be something. And he hadn’t seen me waiting.
That little speech makes me cry every time I read it. Parents need to be careful. Children are so easily crushed.
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