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Title: a satisfyingly rich read
Review: Jennifer Donnelly's "A Northern Light" defies strict categorizing. It's a romance, a mystery, a period piece set in the Adirondack Mountains at the turn of the 20th century. Open-hearted 16-year-old Mattie Gokey is an imaginative, perceptive girl, with a budding talent for writing, who notices things which often escape those around her. When she discovers a bundle of letters, the plot is set in motion, as she strongly identifies with the young woman who wrote the letters and finds parallels in her own life.Donnelly provides the reader with a richly authentic description of the era, with its limited vision of women's roles. Page by page, you will discover with Mattie the fate of the letter writer as you savor this richly satisfying novel.
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