Above Us Only Sky: A Novel, by Michele Young-Stone
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A “gripping, heartwarming” (Bookpage) novel about a family separated by oceans, generations, and war, but connected by something much greater—the gift of wings.On March 29, 1973, Prudence Eleanor Vilkas was born with heart-shaped wings pressed accordion-style against her back. Considered a birth defect, her wings were surgically removed, leaving only the ghost of them behind. In 1980, Prudence’s mother takes her from Nashville to Florida, to a town inhabited by people who have run as far as they can without fins or wings. In this new town, Prudence is befriended by a boy who can see what others can’t, including Prudence’s ghostly wings. The unexpected and unimaginable bubble up from the depths of the Atlantic to confront Prudence when she meets her long-estranged Lithuanian grandfather and discovers a miraculous lineage beating and pulsing with past Lithuanian bird-women, storytellers with wings dragging the dirt, survivors perched on radio towers, lovers lit up like fireworks and heroes disguised as everyday men and women. Above Us Only Sky spans the 1863 January Uprising against Russian Tsarist rule in Eastern Europe to the fall of the Berlin Wall and Lithuania’s independence in 1991. It is a “daring, imaginative” (Milepost magazine) story of mutual understanding between the old and young; it is a love story, a story of survival, and most importantly, a story about disovering where we belong in the world. Young-Stone seamlessly balances Lithuanian history with magical realism in this “amazing, spellbinding, incredible journey” (Literary Hoarders).
Above Us Only Sky: A Novel, by Michele Young-Stone- Amazon Sales Rank: #205286 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-03-03
- Released on: 2015-03-03
- Format: Kindle eBook
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful. Will move you to tears in admiration of the strength of the Lithuanian spirit. By Cynthia Danute Cekauskas, LCSW This is a touching story---one of the loves and losses of one particular Lithuanian-American family and its journey through several generations of individuals orginating in the beautiful country of Lithuania, proudly settling in the United States but powerfully drawn back to the country from which they came many, many years later. It is a ficitional story based on true life events that happened to Lithuanian people as they suffered oppression at the hands of both Nazi German and Communist Russian occupiers.Born in the United States of Lithuanian parents who fled their homeland in 1944 as their native country was occupied by the Soviets, I found myself relating to this book in ways I could not imagine. My own family had had to endure some of the struggles that the families in this book had survived. Like some of the chracters in this book, they too were driven out of their homeland avoding the Soviet forced deportations to hard labor camps in Sibera, fortunate enough to be able to come to the United States and create lives for themselves. I too felt the strong pull to come back to Lithuania and come home to a land I had never been to before.The book tells the story of a young American woman with Lithuanian blood whose Lithuanian paternal grandfather decides that it it is time she learn something about the people from which she had descended. After a seventy year absence, the grandfather returns to Lithuania for a visit accompanied by his wife, his son and his wife and the granddaughter he finally is able to meet and with whom he establishes a lasting bond. It is during this time the grandfather also reestablishes contact with the sister he left behind in Lithuania lead to believe, years ago, that she had been raped and murdered by the Soviets. In telling this story the book goes back in time and tells of the happenings of family members as they suffered the effects of war and occupation and how, despite terrible odds, they managed to survive and go on, while at the same time, celebrating the strength of their Lithuanian spirit. It is a book full of sadness and loss, joy and triumph, a telling of an unusual "birth defect" in some of the women of the family who are born with wings! The book is magical and moving. It will keep you spellbound and touch your soul. I felt honored to have had the opportunity to read it.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Above Us Only Sky takes the reader on an amazing journey! Once again she relays her characters in ... By Loretta Lockhart Michele Young-Stone is a master story teller! Rich in history, her latest book, Above Us Only Sky takes the reader on an amazing journey! Once again she relays her characters in such a way that they feel like friends. ..You KNOW these people! Her adept ability of tying the past to the present is uncanny. I enjoyed reading this novel so much , I could barely put it down! The only forewarning I have is. . You just might fall in love .. and as in life and love. . You just might find yourself in tears and pieces. A must read!!!
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful. A heartwarming novel By Carol Abbey Really hard to put down, this novel combines love, family, history, tragedy & triumph in a heart warming story that is sure toopen your eyes to the history of Lithuania and it's resilient people.I would recommend this novel to anyone who cares about relationships & the world around them.
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