This annual award is given in recognition of a library school faculty members achievement or another individuals distinguished service to education for librarianship. An ambitious departure for Cashore that will reward (and perhaps demand) many re-readings. Associate Professor Emily Knox has been selected as the 2023 recipient of the American Library Associations Beta Phi Mu Award. These shifts require a reader patient enough to follow the story’s many contradictions until Jane discovers why she’s at Tu Reviens and, ultimately, what she wants.
Each new version is a little weirder than the last, and the overall effect is less Choose Your Own Adventure than Groundhog Day on acid, set within a framework that pays homage to several classic novels, most notably Du Maurier’s Rebecca. The story then restarts five times in five genres-spy thriller, horror, science fiction, mystery, fantasy-sometimes repeating information verbatim from a previous section. A cast of guests, servants, Kiran’s twin, and a basset hound is quickly introduced, as are a raft of suspicious activities. When a former tutor, Kiran, invites Jane to her family’s island mansion, Tu Reviens, Jane accepts, arriving with everything she owns, including 37 handmade umbrellas. Kathy Dawson Books Penguin Young Readers Group An imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 375 Hudson Street New York, NY 10014. But at Tu Reviens, every choice comes with a reward, or a price.Cashore’s first novel in four years covers an eventful weekend in the life of 18-year-old Jane, an orphan raised by an aunt whose recent death has left her niece unmoored. What Jane doesn’t know is that Tu Reviens will offer her choices that can ultimately determine the course of her untethered life. Then her story takes a turn, or rather, five turns.
Jane remembers her aunt telling her: “If anyone ever invites to you to Tu Reviens, promise me that you’ll go.” With nothing but a trunkful of umbrella parts to her name, Jane ventures out to the Thrash estate. Now, with no direction, a year out of high school, and obsessed with making umbrellas that look like her own dreams (but mostly just mourning her aunt), she is easily swept away by Kiran Thrash-a glamorous, capricious acquaintance who shows up and asks Jane to accompany her to a gala at her family’s island mansion called Tu Reviens. But Aunt Magnolia was lost a few months ago in Antarctica on one of her expeditions.
Jane counted on Magnolia to make the world feel expansive and to turn life into an adventure. Jane has lived an ordinary life, raised by her aunt Magnolia-an adjunct professor and deep sea photographer. Details Author Kristin Cashore Publisher Kathy Dawson Books Publication Date Section Young Adult.
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