Enjoyable and interesting. Owens does an amazing job with setting, and I was surprisingly engrossed by the rich details of the marsh and its abundanceEnjoyable and interesting. Owens does an amazing job with setting, and I was surprisingly engrossed by the rich details of the marsh and its abundance of life. I was fascinated by the slow and detailed development of Kya in the first half of the novel. I loved the time we spent exploring Kya's relationship with her father and her early transformative decisions. But the amazingly pat resolution of her mother's story sounded the alarm for me and simply too much of the second half of the novel seemed overly contrived. 3.5 for me with most of those stars going to the rich and beautifully detailed setting....more
At Little Tree's first autumn, he is reluctant to drop his leaves. He hangs on to them while the other trees around him drop their leaves and grow theAt Little Tree's first autumn, he is reluctant to drop his leaves. He hangs on to them while the other trees around him drop their leaves and grow the next spring. Little Tree remains the same with those old dead leaves still clinging to his small trunk. At last he lets them drop which allows him to also grow. A good story to discuss fear, change, growing up....more
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