She makes some new friends and starts to receive bizarre notes on small scraps of paper. The story begins as, for reasons she knows not, her male friend (Sal) who she's known all her life no longer wants to talk to her. Miranda (12) lives in New York City with her mother in an apartment.
The story takes place in 1979 (or does it? hehe). The audience forces authors to stick fairly closely to the point, avoiding too many digressions. I quite like reading (nearly) YA books from time to time. From an adult perspective, it's more of a novella, which is fine, but, to my mind, the length was just right. After a few pages, I read the blurb and realised it was something called `middle-grade' fiction, which I now know to be a genre for - is this the right term? - `tweenies' - children who are too old for children's books but not old enough for YA (young adult) books.Īt any rate, I'd read it in under three hours, and enjoyed it very much. Admittedly, I picked it up principally because it looked like an archetypal `slim volume'. “Readers … are likely to find themselves chewing over the details of this superb and intricate tale long afterward.I bought this book a few months ago, having seen it recommended somewhere - perhaps on that pesky page-a-day Book-Lovers' calendar that's been the cause of way too much money draining out of my bank account over the last couple of years - but I picked it up to read on the day after I finished Peter F Hamilton's 1.25-million-word Night's Dawn Trilogy (genre: science fiction, sub-genre: space opera). ★ “It’s easy to imagine readers studying Miranda’s story as many times as she’s read L’Engle’s, and spending hours pondering the provocative questions it raises.” ★ “This unusual, thought-provoking mystery will appeal to several types of readers.” ★ “Closing revelations are startling and satisfying but quietly made, their reverberations giving plenty of impetus for the reader to go back to the beginning and catch what was missed.”
★ “he mental gymnastics required of readers are invigorating and the characters, children and adults, are honest bits of humanity no matter in what place or time their souls rest.” ★ “hen all the sidewalk characters from Miranda’s Manhattan world converge amid mind-blowing revelations and cunning details, teen readers will circle back to the beginning and say, ‘Wow…cool.’”
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