When the Moon was Ours: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.62 (642 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 125005866X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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Now, McLemore delivers a second stunning and utterly romantic novel, again tinged with magic.To everyone who knows them, best friends Miel and Sam are as strange as they are inseparable. But as odd as everyone considers Miel and Sam, even they stay away from the Bonner girls, four beautiful sisters rumored to be witches. Sam is known for the moons he paints and hangs in the trees and for how little anyone knows about his life before he and his mother moved to town. Roses grow out of Miel’s wrist, and rumors say that she spilled out of a water tower when she was five. Now they want the roses that grow from Miel’s skin, convinced that their scent can make anyone fall in love. Atmospheric, dynamic, and packed with gorgeous prose, When the Moon was Ours is another winner from this talented author.. And they’re willing to use every secret Miel has fought to protect to make sure she gives them up. Longlisted for the 2016 National Book Award for Young People's LiteratureAnna-Marie McLemore’s debut novel The Weight of Feathers was greeted with rave reviews, a YALSA Morris Award nomin
. A Lambda Literary Fellow, she has had work featured by the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West, CRATE Literary Magazine’s cratelit, Camera Obscura’s Bridge the Gap Series, and The Portland Review. She is the author of The Weight of Feathers and When the Moon was Ours. She attended University of Southern California on a Trustee Scholarship. About the AuthorANNA-MARIE MCLEMORE was born in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains and grew up in a Mexican-American family
Alyssa said this book is amazing. Such a delight. this book is amazing. Such a delight. The first time I've connected with magical realism. The prose is beautiful, the story is astounding. The cover alone makes this worth buying but the words inside make it perfect.. "“And she told me a story yesterday/About the sweet love between the moon and the deep blue sea”" according to Kelly Garbato. “Someday, he and Miel would be nothing but a fairy tale. When they were gone from this town, no one would remember the exact brown of Miel’s eyes, or the way she spiced recado rojo with cloves, or even that Sam and his mother were Pakistani. At best, they would remember a dark-eyed gir. When the Moon was Ours I was very excited, but also hesitant, about reading When the Moon Was Ours. Excited because, well, read that description! It sounds amazing! The hesitation comes from the fact that Magical Realism isn’t my genre. I did enjoy the author’s debut, but sadly this one didn’t quite wo
ANNA-MARIE MCLEMORE was born in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains and grew up in a Mexican-American family. She attended University of Southern California on a Trustee Scholarship. A Lambda Literary Fellow, she has had work featured by the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West, CRATE Literary Magazine’s cratelit, Camera Obscura’s Bridge the Gap Series, an