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the little ghost who was a quilt

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All the Things We Leave Behind by Riel Nason

...from Goose Lane Editions...

It's 1977. Seventeen-year-old Violet is left behind by her parents to manage their busy roadside antique stand for the summer. Her restless older brother, Bliss, has disappeared, leaving home without warning, and her parents are off searching for clues. Violet is haunted by her brother's absence while trying to cope with her new responsibilities. Between visiting a local hermit, who makes twig furniture for the shop, and finding a way to land the contents of the mysterious Vaughan estate, Violet acts out with her summer boyfriend, Dean, and wonders about the mysterious boneyard. But what really keeps her up at night are thoughts of Bliss's departure and the white deer, which only she has seen.

Available September 2016.

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Working Through Our Thoughts | Review of "All The Things We Leave Behind" by Riel Nason (2016) Goose Lane Editions

Working Through Our Thoughts | Review of “All The Things We Leave Behind” by Riel Nason (2016) Goose Lane Editions

Thought. It is the bane of our existence at times. We dwell at times with things like: memories, obsessions, fears, emotions, sentiment and so forth. We know we need to get over things at times yet  thoughts sometimes freeze us into a place that we can barely move. We need to work through those thoughts even though they may take us into an odd or uncomfortable place. And that is one of the many…

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Riel Nason

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Jason wraps up our July discussion of Riel Nason's The Town That Drowned. Check back in August for discussion of Kim Thúy's Mãn.

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The Town that Drowned - Riel Nason

Synopsis:

Living with an eccentric little brother can be rough. Falling through the ice at a skating party and nearly drowning are grounds for embarasment. But having a vision and narrating it to assembled onlookers? That solidifies your status as an outcast. What Ruby Carson saw during that fateful hallucination was her entire hometown - houses and people - floating underwater. Then an orange-tipped surveyor stake appears in a field, another in the cemetery. Soon everyone discovers that a massive dam is being constructed and their homes will eventually be swallowed by rising water. Suspicions mount, tempers flare, long-simmering secrets are revealed. As the town prepares for its demise, 14-year-old Ruby watches it all from a front row seat. 

I give it a 5/10

I didnt technically want to read this book, but the author came to our school (she's from new brunswick, the book is based on something that actually happened here) so I had to read it for class. 

I wasn't a huge fan of the book, I, personally, only found it interesting because the town is a real place, and the dam is real, and I've actually seen the river and the dam and what little of the town you can see underwater, and the few buildings that got moved to a historical sight. 

The plot about Ruby and her weird vision was kind a weird back story kind of plot, and it absolutely does not get explained in the ending. We did ask the author about this and she said she wanted the reader guessing, and make up their own ending. I think that's just terrible and ridiculous, a book should have an ending. It makes me feel like she couldn't write the ending herself, so she just opted out and left it hanging. 

She did sign my book though, so everyone go out and buy it and make her slightly famous so my copy can be worth something! :D