A Death in the Family: Review of Carys Bray's "A Song for Issy Bradley"
[This review originally appeared in 15 Bytes Magazine, May 2015]
A Song for Issy Bradley
Carys Bray
Ballantine Books (2014)
330 pp.
There’s a moment in A Song for Issy Bradley, Carys Bray’s luminous first novel (and 15 Bytes Book Award finalist this year), when a teenage Mormon girl named Zippy is asked at a party she’s not supposed to be at, “[I]f you weren’t already a member, would you join the Church?”This is not only the question being asked of Latter-day Saint youth of the “millennial” set to...
A Song for Issy BradleyCarys Bray
Ballantine Books (2014)
330 pp.
There’s a moment in A Song for Issy Bradley, Carys Bray’s luminous first novel (and 15 Bytes Book Award finalist this year), when a teenage Mormon girl named Zippy is asked at a party she’s not supposed to be at, “[I]f you weren’t already a member, would you join the Church?”This is not only the question being asked of Latter-day Saint youth of the “millennial” set to...
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