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A northern light novel5/28/2023 ![]() She’s a talented writer who’s been accepted with a scholarship to attend Barnard College in New York. Mattie’s sisters need parenting, but not from an older sister.Īnd Mattie has dreams of her own. Mattie’s brother has left, after a blow-up with his father, and no one expects to see him again. But Mattie’s father is isolated from his family emotionally, as he works non-stop to eke out a living on his farm. Mattie’s mother has died, exacting a promise from Mattie to take care of her younger sisters and her father and brother. Set in upstate New York, A Northern Light weaves the real-life story of Grace Brown into the fictional story of Mattie Gokey (Mathilda Gauthier). It was a great entrée to discuss the limitations put on women by society in the early 1900s, and to talk about how the girls’ choices in life are so different now from when the characters were living or even from when the moms were growing up. Most of us thought A Northern Light was a beautifully written book with well-developed, complicated characters who made difficult choices. The girls are in eighth grade, and this book addresses more mature subject matters than we’ve addressed before. ![]() ![]() We had read A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly. ![]() Last night my daughter Catherine and I met with our mother-daughter daughter book club. ![]()
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