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All sorts of references to fairy tales, myths and fantastical beings and stories that have received or will receive creations from Talismith Incorported including a shiny red train engine with a sign Charlie only saw a part of: H-O-G!

Mustang-16 yrs

River-11 years old
Emma-14 years old
Mustang-still a kid but approaching adulthood

Iris and Alysa/Shasta-sisters

References to Maddie (main character of Alone and mentioned in Away) and Ashanti (minor character in Alone and major in Away); in the same “world” as both Alone & Away but a different community with new main characters

I love rdg about the Yellowstone sights/sounds we have visited so many times. Didn’t recognize Momma Bear’s Armory from our stays/visits to Gardiner, but my husband & I have eaten several times at The Cowboy Lodge and Grille!

Gustavo has extreme anxiety and calls the nervous stomach feeling his “chapines,” Spanish for trunkfish because it feels like fish are swimming around inside.

This going to be a good one!!

Grace is 12.

Sand metaphor for families, cups of sand when cared for, complimented, loved, and the more sand you have, the better castles you can build.

Keisha-Black, server
Melanie-hot tempered redhead, not on team
Valerie-libero, short
Cat-Caucasian, team star, lives w/single mom

Setting: New Orleans
MCs: Audrey-10th grader, native to New Orleans area in counseling for anxiety disorder; Iris-Black, also native to New Orleans; Tatum-moved to New Orleans from Scotland for dad’s job
Supporting character/antagonist: Elke-native to area with disengaged family, seeking connection and finding the Shade; Sterling-Audrey’s ghost friend about her age; Chase-boyfriend for the last year

Two cousins need to catch up because one of them isn’t yet allowed a cell phone so they have to use the “old-fashioned” way during the school year—email!! What happened to actual letters? Are they THAT antiquated?

Hebrews 13:16 And do not forget to do good and to share with others, for which with such sacrifices God is pleased.

“She watches me long enough for our chili dogs to congeal and start their second lives as doorstops.”

Violet’s sarcasm is hilarious,albeit sad, since she’s using it to mask her sadness about mom’s emotional and physical absence and her impending loss of sight.

Less than a handful of profanity and all of it mild altho there have been some acronyms that stand for the F word, i.e. WTF and AF.

Florence-10 yrs old

Rising 5th graders in the 80s; environmental concerns

Aziz’s autonomous program name, determined by the program: the Overcast!!!!

Lizzie-dubbed the “British BLADE”

Ari/Ariel-The rings!

Renz-eco nihilist who destroys the Mona Lisa

Kevin-best descriptor is pansexual, has a predilection for kimonos (significant pause) & robes.

Aziz-creating an autonomous computer program to optimize everything, learning each user, Pakistani

Lizzie-agonizing over how to make death “matter” and life to end with grace; discussions of “turning the corner” & what might be around it

Ari/Ariel-Jewish/Indigenous

I love book references in novels and Tandon includes a necklace with a lemon pendant that was preorder swag for Heather Clark’s Lemon Drop Falls. Which I read and thoroughly enjoyed!