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a story about young people dealing with the usual predicaments of the young: death, loss, love, alienation, belonging, growing up. The novel's point of view is third person limited, from the central character's perspective. In the opening chapter, we first meet 10-year-old Victoria Finch, also known as Tory and Vicky, trying to come to terms with the recent death of her father and their subsequent move from their home in Boston to a strange house on Autumn Street in the outlying village of New Oxford. Her sense of loss and dislocation is profound. Fox is able to project convincingly a young person's manner of thinking, seeing, and feeling. For instance: "My thoughts grew paler and thinner until they were like little moons." Or: "The sky was a great kite. It rose and fell like a bird, and I realized I was smiling." Or: "Spring came in days as light as a chain of brightly colored paper rings." But, as in all such stories of youthful losses, the emptiness eventually fills up: with new friends, new adventures, new beginnings. A moving and gentle story.
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