Isabel isn’t listening when her father drives her from their city home to stay at her grandmother’s house in the country. Bert’s wife Betty takes tiny Angelino to the school where she’s a cook, and he becomes beloved by the students. A picaresque road trip in a quasi-medieval, magical world, this is also a lose-yourself-in-it novel of adolescent healing and empowerment, a promise that youthful ignorance and its errors are remediable. Too bad he’s twenty-nine, a cop like her father, and the best conversation partner she’s ever had. Deirdre Baker is the author of Becca Fair and Foul forthcoming from Groundwood Books (2018)

Source: thestar March 23, 2018 10:30 UTC