![]() ![]() Listen in as I speak with Laura about Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All (Balzer and Bray, 2019) The themes of forbidden love, racism, and dispossession will draw in many young readers. The ghost girl reads the Hobbit over the shoulders of a library visitor, goes to a bar where she drinks not-bourbon served by a ghost barkeeper, and keeps revisiting a certain blue house, to watch a young woman and her lover inside. ![]() The setting of the orphanage is well researched-more about that in the interview with Laura Ruby-and Pearl’s afterlife is original and poignant. Pearl, witnessing Fran’s emotions, is brought closer to her own lost life. In meantime, Frankie goes through her teen years and experiences her first love-and loss. ![]() It takes the friendship and confrontational questions of another traumatized ghost, for her to come to terms with the painful memories of her strict mother and hateful brothers. This is the ghost, Pearl, who would much rather observe other people’s stories then think about her own unhappy one. There’s another girl too though, whose voice intersperses herself into the everyday happenings. Their story, set in Chicago of the 1940s, unfolds during the course of the novel. ![]() Francesca and Toni are brought to the orphanage when their mother suffers a breakdown and dies, and their father gets involved with a new woman. ![]()
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