So, yesterday was the official kick-off of the Keep Portland Weird festival here in Paris, which meant that I had a reading/screening in the...
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I turned the last pages of Lilac Mines as slowly as I could because I didn't want to say goodbye to Felix, Anna Lisa (aka Al), Meg, Lilac and Calla. Cheryl Klein's characters have quirky and wondrous names. She invents a small town place with an abandoned mine where these young women lose and find themselves. She has mined her imagination for potent metaphors that will fill you with silver. In this book love is lost. Lives are lost. A town dies and resurrects itself. Street names and buildings are lost. But can the past be boarded up for good? Klein gives us a mystery. She gives us a fairy tale. Klein weaves her story back and forth over many lifetimes and breathes spirit into the words her characters speak. Listen to Cheryl Klein tell her story.
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Lilac Mines by Cheryl Klein
Nancy Cary, November 2, 2009
I turned the last pages of Lilac Mines as slowly as I could because I didn't want to say goodbye to Felix, Anna Lisa (aka Al), Meg, Lilac and Calla. Cheryl Klein's characters have quirky and wondrous names. She invents a small town place with an abandoned mine where these young women lose and find themselves. She has mined her imagination for potent metaphors that will fill you with silver. In this book love is lost. Lives are lost. A town dies and resurrects itself. Street names and buildings are lost. But can the past be boarded up for good? Klein gives us a mystery. She gives us a fairy tale. Klein weaves her story back and forth over many lifetimes and breathes spirit into the words her characters speak. Listen to Cheryl Klein tell her story.(3 of 5 readers found this comment helpful)