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Plain Kate, by Erin Bow
Dec. 21st, 2017 06:45 pmWELL this is a book that gave me a lot of feelings. I read the first half the book, had to set it down because I didn't have the time to finish it in one sitting, and then it took a while to convince myself to pick it back up again to finish it because it was so HARROWING and I didn't know if I could take it.
And it did indeed continue to be harrowing, and I cried a bunch at the end, but it was also really really good.
It's a book about dealing with grief and also about dealing with being seen as strange/other/outcast/dangerous. Set in an alternate world, it's the story of a girl named Plain Kate who is a woodcarver but not guild-sanctioned, whose father died recently, and who is considered to be probably a witch by other people who see her as dangerous as a result.
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And it did indeed continue to be harrowing, and I cried a bunch at the end, but it was also really really good.
It's a book about dealing with grief and also about dealing with being seen as strange/other/outcast/dangerous. Set in an alternate world, it's the story of a girl named Plain Kate who is a woodcarver but not guild-sanctioned, whose father died recently, and who is considered to be probably a witch by other people who see her as dangerous as a result.
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