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April 20, 2016
"Since you've been away it's been like a train station that's been shut down."
"A train station?"
"Don't know why I said that. It's like a place that use to be warm and busy and friendly and useful and purposeful, and all like that. Now it's just a place that I go to get some rest and air out my sad thoughts."
Al Young's Seduction by Light is an amazing novel that captures the life of Mamie Franklin, an ex-film and singing star turned maid. Mamie is blessed with psychic powers and soon has to cope with the death of her common-law husband, Burley, and his ultimate return as a spirit with some unfinished business.
Mamie seems like an old friend and you can't help but laugh and then cry at all the things that happen to her. From when she sees the ghost of her soul-buddy, Benjamin Franklin (yes, the one and only, kite-flying, electricity discovering, hundred dollar bill one), to when she loses Burley and is forced to face life without the man she'd fallen so in love with; Mamie Franklin is a character you can cheer for and love.
This novel is beautifully written and has lovable characters and it seems like Mamie (who narrates in her own vernacular) is an old friend just sitting down next to you telling you her story. Al Young, notable as California's Poet Laureate Emeritus, brings Mamie and her world vividly to life and makes the book hard to put down.
I'm not really sure how I came upon this novel as I'd never heard of it or Al Young before but I'm officially a fan. If you haven't read this book, what are you waiting for?! Seriously, you won't regret it at all.
"A train station?"
"Don't know why I said that. It's like a place that use to be warm and busy and friendly and useful and purposeful, and all like that. Now it's just a place that I go to get some rest and air out my sad thoughts."
Al Young's Seduction by Light is an amazing novel that captures the life of Mamie Franklin, an ex-film and singing star turned maid. Mamie is blessed with psychic powers and soon has to cope with the death of her common-law husband, Burley, and his ultimate return as a spirit with some unfinished business.
Mamie seems like an old friend and you can't help but laugh and then cry at all the things that happen to her. From when she sees the ghost of her soul-buddy, Benjamin Franklin (yes, the one and only, kite-flying, electricity discovering, hundred dollar bill one), to when she loses Burley and is forced to face life without the man she'd fallen so in love with; Mamie Franklin is a character you can cheer for and love.
This novel is beautifully written and has lovable characters and it seems like Mamie (who narrates in her own vernacular) is an old friend just sitting down next to you telling you her story. Al Young, notable as California's Poet Laureate Emeritus, brings Mamie and her world vividly to life and makes the book hard to put down.
I'm not really sure how I came upon this novel as I'd never heard of it or Al Young before but I'm officially a fan. If you haven't read this book, what are you waiting for?! Seriously, you won't regret it at all.
April 21, 2017
Full of insight, humor, sadness and heart
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