But in the dead woman’s letters, Mattie again finds her voice, and a determination to live her own life. Yet when the drowned body of a young woman turns up at the hotel where Mattie works, all her words are useless. And the secret dreams that keep her going–visions of finishing high school, going to college in New York City, becoming a writer. The mad welter of feelings Mattie has for handsome but dull Royal Loomis, who says he wants to marry her. The burden of raising her sisters while her father struggles over his brokeback farm. She collects words, stores them up as a way of fending off the hard truths of her life, the truths that she can’t write down in stories. Due to time constraints, I couldn’t make it – but hey, better late than never, right? Why did I read this book: I’ve had my eye on A Northern Light for a while now and meant to read it over the course of our Young Adult Appreciation Month. Stand alone or series: Stand alone novel. Publication Date: April 2003 (US) / June 2003 (UK) Publisher: Hartcourt Paperback (US) / Bloomsbury (UK) Title: A Northern Light (UK Title: A Gathering Light)
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