Hope is the thing with feathers— - Lois Lowry's Blog
Hope is the thing with feathers—
Posted on Oct 01, Posted by Lois Lowry Category Uncategorized
While headed both to and from Brattleboro, Vermont, this wekend to participate in their
wonderful annual Literary Festival, I read. I am one of those lucky people who can read in a car.
(And no, I wasn't driving!) Yes, the scenery in New England is spectacular this time of year and
I did look up and through the window now and then. But so was my book: AFTERNOONS
WITH EMILY. by Rose MacMurray, who, sadly, died just as she finished writing it. Her family
oversaw its publication.
Maybe only former English majors will love this book...(but lord knows there are enough of us
around!) Told from the point of view of a young girl who moves to Amherst, MA when her father
becomes a professor of Classics at the college there, the story is really a study of the girl's odd,
reclusive neighbor, Emily Dickinson.
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