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Oh My Stars
β Scribed by Lorna Landvik
- Book ID
- 112181526
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 367 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780345484789
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
I am convinced that at birth the cake is already baked. Nurture is the nuts or frosting, but if you're a spice cake, you're a spice cake, and nothing is going to change you into an angel food.
Tall, slender Violet Mathers is growing up in the Great Depression, which could just as well define her state of mind. Abandoned by her mother as a child, mistreated by her father, and teased by her schoolmates ("Hey, Olive Oyl, where's Popeye?"), the lonely girl finds solace in artistic pursuits. Only when she's hired by the town's sole feminist to work the night shift in the local thread factory does Violet come into her name, and bloom. Accepted by her co-workers, the teenager enters the happiest phase of her life, until a terrible accident causes her to retreat once again into her lonely shell.
Realizing that she has only one clear choice, Violet boards a bus heading west to California. But when the bus crashes in North Dakota, it...
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