The Serendipity of Flightless Things

✍ Scribed by Fiadhnait Moser

• Book ID: 100575304
• Publisher: little bee books; Yellow Jacket
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 174 KB
• Edition: First edition
• Category: Fiction
• City: United States., Virginia,Virginia.
• ISBN: 1499808445

✦ Synopsis

This middle grade, magical-realism novel from the author of The Flourishing of Floralie Laurel is about an Irish girl who is sent to a mysterious town in Virginia to live with her long-lost mother, and is Alice Hoffman's Nightbird meets Claire LeGrand's The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls!
Amidst the 1971 Troubles between the Irish Republican Army and Northern Ireland, twelve-year-old Finn lives in a world all her own of fairy tales. Raised by her grandmother, Nuala, who is the village storyteller, Finn spends her days playing make-believe in the forest, weaving her own tall tales to tell her friend Darcy, longing to go to the island of Inis Eala to meet the swans there, and waiting for her father to return from the war. She's long since stopped believing in happy endings and miracles, preferring to believe instead in serendipity, or "happy mistakes." While Nuala revels in the safety and routine of their quiet village life, spunky Finn craves adventure ....

✦ Subjects

Virginia