![]() ![]() I was completely sucked into this story and spent nearly every free moment I had engrossed in the book, trying to see how it would end. ![]() There is something about this book - the chapters are short and episodic and don't necessarily create a narrative, but they have a flow and there is just something about this book that made me not want to put it down. I picked this up at Midwinter because I'm basically a sucker for the circus (true story: I drove to Cincinnati from Indiana to go to an art exhibit of circus posters). But Portia has a faint memory of her father and the circus, so when Mosco's Taveling Wonder Show rides by, she sees her escape and perhaps a way to find her father again. But she was much too spirited for Aunt Sophia, so off Portia was sent to McGreavey's Home for Wayward Girls. See, the dust made her father leave - in search of a better life for them - and Portia was left behind with her aunt. Well, it's a bit more complicated than that. Expected publication Maby Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ![]()
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