Title: Heavy-handed symbols, mediocre plot but lovely narration
Product review: The narrator of this book is a charming young girl. She has a distinctive "voice" that made me very aware that this book was set in the South. In spite of this, I thought the book was fairly mediocre.The whole "wings, flying" symbolism/theme, etc is pretty over the top. I like that the mother named both her daughters after birds so they could fly above it all, but mentions of wings, flying, angels, etc are laid out VERY heavily. It seemed very glaring...at least one a page or so. It was so frequent and jarring that it distracted me from the narration.This book features a terribly abusive, messed up situation. Made it sort of tough to read at times. That being said, I was glad for the happy ending, and the novel did have some beautiful descriptions.
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