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I Think I Can, I Think I Can
From an old, Depression-weary farmer and a Victorian zealot comes advice to a precocious three-year-old, “Life is what it is, Child. Deal with it, or accept it and let it be.”
But a child wants to know “Why?” Katie’s search for answers to ties broken, half-distorted memories, and irrational fears as she comes of age, will lead her from abandonment and betrayal, through a war, only to more questions.
How do we forgive what we can’t understand? Can deep wounds ever heal? Can we change love and make it different? Can we make someone stay? Can a handicapped person force a dream to come true?
This tender depiction of a child’s mind makes us think twice about what we say when we assume children cannot yet understand, or remember, and how their innocent perceptions of what we say affect their life choices.
Frank McCourt said of Angela’s Ashes, “Children are almost deadly in their detachment from the world ... They are absolutely pragmatic, and they tell the truth.”
Perhaps we are never meant to know the WHY of a matter in order to survive it. Perhaps the old farmer was right.
This novel has the compelling honesty of an intimate conversation. Knowing the hearts of her characters, showing them with compassion, humor, and illuminating generosity, M.J. Brett shows that by forgiving others and yourself, you may be able to keep the past from ruining your future.
But a child wants to know “Why?” Katie’s search for answers to ties broken, half-distorted memories, and irrational fears as she comes of age, will lead her from abandonment and betrayal, through a war, only to more questions.
How do we forgive what we can’t understand? Can deep wounds ever heal? Can we change love and make it different? Can we make someone stay? Can a handicapped person force a dream to come true?
This tender depiction of a child’s mind makes us think twice about what we say when we assume children cannot yet understand, or remember, and how their innocent perceptions of what we say affect their life choices.
Frank McCourt said of Angela’s Ashes, “Children are almost deadly in their detachment from the world ... They are absolutely pragmatic, and they tell the truth.”
Perhaps we are never meant to know the WHY of a matter in order to survive it. Perhaps the old farmer was right.
This novel has the compelling honesty of an intimate conversation. Knowing the hearts of her characters, showing them with compassion, humor, and illuminating generosity, M.J. Brett shows that by forgiving others and yourself, you may be able to keep the past from ruining your future.
311 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 1, 2010
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