Audiobook9 hours
Above Us Only Sky
Written by Michele Young-Stone
Narrated by Cassandra Campbell
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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About this audiobook
A spellbinding story about a family of women separated by oceans, generations and war, but connected by something much greater-- the gift of wings. Prudence Eleanor Vilkas was born with a pair of wings molded to her back. Considered a birth defect, her wings were surgically removed, leaving only the ghost of them behind. Growing up in Los Vientos, Florida Prudence meets her long-estranged Lithuanian grandfather and discovers a miraculous lineage beating and pulsing with the past Lituanian bird-women. ABOVE US ONLY SKY is the story of Prudence and the Vilkas women as the novel spans centuries. Most of all, it is a story of moral understanding between the old and young; a story of survival, and most importantly about where we belong in the world.#160;#160;
Author
Michele Young-Stone
Michele Young-Stone is the author of the novels Lost in the Beehive, Above Us Only Sky, and The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors, which The Boston Globe called “an exceptionally rich and sure-handed debut.” She lives in the Outer Banks of North Carolina with her husband and son.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I admit I knew very little of the plight of the county of Luthuanians and their treatment at both the hands of Germany and Hitler, and Russia and Stalin. This was a very sad, and fascinating book. I read in quickly, and I highly recommend it. A bit of Alice Hoffman type of magic realism which was an interesting part of the story, but not as interesting as how families survived and continued to live after watching their parents and loved ones gassed in Hitler's crematories. Yet, the will to survive was strong.This is a fascinating book!