Some considered her an angel, blessed, otherworldly! Some thought she was cursed.
The journalists, from the minute they got wind of it, only a little after she came to be, camped outside her mothers' delivery room, determined to be the first to explain the phenomenon. People who had devoted their lives to the sciences found themselves questioning their beliefs...
And yet, good or bad, angelic or a gift from the devil, boon or bane, there was only one conclusion. The Girl Born with Wings simply would not survive without them. They were as essential to her as her heart!
To understand how The Girl Born with Wings came to be where she is, how her story landed on the threshold of the Yellow House, how she lives her life the way she does, which I will not elaborate upon for fear of the book losing its magical touch, we must go back- way back- to one of the tiniest, most gossipy cities in France where Emilienne Beaugard lived with her three siblings, her silent petite mother and her phrenologist father (phrenology is the study of head shapes and how that relates to the success of your life).
Emilienne's father decided that his family was destined for greater things and just as soon, waved Bon Voyage to his tiny town from the deck of a huge ship, daring to sail simply a week after the Titanic sunk, on his way to his utopia: New York, America....
New York is in the city that never sleeps and Emilienne finds herself thrown into a world so much stranger that the one she was used to. It is here, in the city that can make and break you, that Emilienne and her siblings learn the lessons of love, life, death and family.
From France to New York to a little town in the suburbs. From simply waiting for love and engaging in all of its ups and downs, to trying to see through the blinding cloud of pain and misery that Love can leave behind. From a picturesque little family to one irrevocably broken, without the help of something unexplainable; something angelic, something extraordinary, something magical!
Ava Lavender's story shows you the fragile threads we all exist upon and what we do to stay upright. It shows how precariously we are attached to one another and how a small insignificant act can impact your life in ways you would never even dare to imagine. It shows us the sorrows our wants can bring us, particularly love.
It is the complicated journey of three young women interlinked by a bond stronger than blood- two extremely unlucky in love and another born with wings! Lyrical and astounding, it will change you and show you what pain lies out there!
I loved this book! As intrigued as I was by the blurb, for three quarters of the book I kept waiting to read about the girl born with wings and instead I got the story of her mother and grandmother. It was intriguing, and perhaps even necessary, but not the point.
I just wished it the book would have focused more on the Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender, not of all the Lavender Women! But it was a sweet, harsh, bittersweet and lyrical read, nonetheless!
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