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"Blue moon, you saw me standing alone without a dream in my heart." Song lyrics, February 28, 2011
With one of the most frightening events that a person can face, Piper Kincaid is only thirty-years-old when she feels a lump in her breast and learns that she has cancer.
Her best friend, Becca, has been staying with her to provide care. However, as the story unfolds, Piper is weak from the effects of the disease and has decided to stop her chemotherapy.
Piper's mother had been a free spirit and worked artistically with glass objects. The family managed to eek out an existence based on Piper's father's income. However, he lost his job when the furniture factory closed. He managed to get a seasonal job at a landfill in his Vermont town but his pride and ambition were broken.
After a time, Piper's mother began to live in an imaginary world where everyting would turn out right. Piper had a feeling of what was coming and one day when Piper was only fourteen-years-old, her mother disappeared.
Piper's father stopped going to work and spent his time searching for his wife but then gave up and found someone new. Then, he moved in with his new friend.
With the loss of her parents, Piper's brother, Quinn is appointed her guardian. Piper remained philosophical and hopeful. She relates that she dreamed of having a husband "...and the way an infant might feel like a small bird lying on my chest."
This is a story of lonliness, despair and hope that captures the reader's heart as we are drawn into Piper's life and find ourselves saying a prayer for her.
The novel is wonderfully written. The reader experiences the emotional trama of a young woman who learns that her life may be ending before it has a chance to begin.
Can a story this sad be entertaining? T. Greenwood has demonstrated in this novel, that it can.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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serendipity, March 17, 2002
I went to the library and found this unassuming little book perched among the new releases...sounded good, took it home, opened it up and WOW!!! What a pleasant surprise...this is a very charismatic story...one of those rare books I could not put down...it's actually a pretty simple story of a woman with a terminal disease who reflects upon the circumstances of her life with lovely allegories of colors and glass and simple symbols. I highly recommend this uncomplicated yet poetic novel........
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Rich in metaphor, a novel you will not forget, February 27, 2002
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Thirty-year old Piper Kincaid faces terminal breast cancer in the care of her loving, life-long friend, Becca. The story alternates seamlessly between the present and Piper at age 14, the year her mother left the family and Piper entered into a relationship with a much older man. Color, glass, and the realignment of broken things are dominant metaphors in this novel. Greenwood's language is beautiful, and the story flows like a river, from longing to loss to forgiveness. I'm sorry I didn't discover this magnificent voice sooner, and am now reading "Nearer Than the Sky."
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