![]() ![]() But rather than trying to solve a crime, you, reader, are tasked with uncovering what happened to the characters before the book began. ![]() ![]() Though there’s no murder or heist, The Fountains of Silence plays out like a mystery. Through the stories of Ana, Daniel, and the many characters they encounter, Sepetys educated me about a point in modern history that has been largely ignored by popular media. I love historical fiction, particularly stories about World War II, but I’d never read anything about how that seismic event played out in Spain. There he meets Ana, a young maid who, along with her siblings, has struggled to make ends meet since her Republican parents were punished for their views. Here’s the Cliff’s Notes version: Daniel, a 19-year-old Spanish-American aspiring photographer, is staying with his wealthy parents at the Castellana Hilton (a real place!). That said, this time period wasn’t a particularly pleasant one-at least, not if you were Spanish. ![]() The entire time I was reading (which wasn’t long, since I flew through the 475-page novel in three days), I felt as if I, too, were walking the cobblestoned streets of Madrid, the heat of the late afternoon sun on my shoulders. In Ruta Sepetys’s latest, The Fountains of Silence, I was taken to a sepia-toned summer in 1950s Spain. To another place, to another time, to a world I never could have experienced on my own. ![]()
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![]() ![]() I pursued literature and philosophy at the University of Chicago, and then moved back to New York to attend NYU’s MFA program in creative writing. Later on, I began working on my own stories, and keeping company with a lot of imaginary friends. I started writing as a way of extending my love of reading when I read a book I loved, I would continue to write sequels for it (I was inadvertently a fan fic writer, before “fan fiction” was even a term!). ![]() Our house was old and full of art and towers and towers of books, and that’s still the kind of house I like best. My parents are both literature professors, and from a very early age, my sister and I were encouraged to make up stories, draw, paint, dance around in costumes, and essentially spend much of our time living imaginatively. I was born in Queens and raised in Westchester, New York, in a small town very similar to the one depicted in Before I Fall. ![]() Hello and thanks for checking out my website! Here’s some information about me: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Can he do it? Will he pull it off? What will happen at school after the first week? What would happen if his dad gets out of jail? All will be answered in this book. When things are finally going well for him, or her, twists come and he has to change. Sam is tough and can get angry so it is hard for him to act the part, too. It wont be that hard for him to look the part because Sam has long blonde hair that Matt and his friends think makes him look sort of like a girl. The task he must perform is to pretend to be a girl the first week at his new school and to be believable, too. Sam has to pass an initiation test that none of them think he will ever do. They don't really like him or want him in the gang so they come up with a plan. Sam wants to join the gang that Matt, his cousin, is in. When he gets there, he acts like America is so much better and cooler than England. In her will, she wanted her sister, who lives in England, to take care of her son. It is about an American boy, Sam Lopez, whose mother died in an accident while his father was in jail. ![]() My friend told me that Boy2Girl by Terence Blacker was a great book and I was trying to decide on what book to read next, so I decided to read it and find out myself if it was really that good a book. ![]() |