Synopses & Reviews
When you were a baby I sat very still to hold you. I could see the veins through your skin like a map to inside you. I stopped breathing so you wouldn't ... You were just a boy on a bed in a room, like a kaleidoscope is a tube full of bits of broken glass. But the way I saw you was pieces refracting the light, shifting into an infinite universe of flowers and rainbows and insects and planets, magical dividing cells, pictures no one else knew ... Your whole life you can be told something is wrong and so you believe it.
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"Most of Block's books are iridescent rainbows of prose, no matter how knotty the scenario. This one...is instead darkly opalescent. The language is simpler, but cuts deep." Kirkus Reviews
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"A plot surprise at the end seems patched on, and a long quote from T. S. Eliot's 'Wasteland' may be beyond many readers. It's Block's simple, beautiful words that reveal the loving connection and then the fragments." Hazel Rochman, Booklist
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"While Block's prose is as poetic and lush as always, her narrative shifts may confuse less sophisticated readers....Still, Block might reach a larger audience with this book..." School Library Journal
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"Block treads carefully around a taboo love, revealing the complexity of human emotion, but showing us that instinct is often more reliable than we know." Michele Winship, KLIATT
Synopsis
When you were a baby I sat very still to hold you. I could see the veins through your skin like a map to inside you. I stopped breathing so you wouldn't ... You were just a boy on a bed in a room, like a kaleidoscope is a tube full of bits of broken glass. But the way I saw you was pieces refracting the light, shifting into an infinite universe of flowers and rainbows and insects and planets, magical dividing cells, pictures no one else knew ... Your whole life you can be told something is wrong and so you believe it.
About the Author
Francesca Lia Block is the author of the Los Angeles Times bestsellers The Rose and The Beast, Violet & Claire, and Dangerous Angels: The Weetzie Bat Books, as well as I Was a Teenage Fairy, Girl Goddess #9, The Hanged Man, Echo, and Nymph. Her work has been translated into seven different languages and is published around the world. She made her dazzling entrance onto the literary scene with her debut novel Weetzie Bat in 1989. Ms. Block lives in Los Angeles with her husband, her daughter and son, and Two Dogs.