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Pearly Everlasting

A Novel

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Pearly Everlasting

By: Tammy Armstrong
Narrated by: Jean Ann Douglass
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Set during the Great Depression, an immersive and enchantingly atmospheric novel about a girl and a bear raised as sister and brother in a remote logging camp, and the lengths to which they’ll go to protect each other.

New Brunswick, 1934. When a cook in a logging camp finds an orphaned baby bear, he brings it home to his wife, who names the cub Bruno and raises him alongside her newborn daughter, Pearly. Growing up, Pearly and Bruno share a special bond and become inseparable. While life in the camp can be perilous—loggers are regularly injured or even killed—the Everlasting family form a close-knit community with the woodsmen, who accept and embrace the tame young bear.

But all that changes when a new supervisor arrives, a ruthless profiteer who pushes the workers to their breaking point and abuses Bruno. When the man is found dead in a ditch, the blame falls on the bear; soon after, Bruno is kidnapped and sold to an animal trader. Determined to rescue the only brother she has ever known, Pearly, now a teenager, sets off alone on a hazardous journey through the forest—her first trip to “the Outside”—to find him. In the harrowing quest to bring him home through miles of ice and snow, eluding malevolent spirits and the cruelty of strange villagers, she will discover new worlds and a strength she never knew she possessed.

Steeped in rural folklore and superstition, and set against the backdrop of an enchanting woodland, Pearly Everlasting is a story about the triumph of good over evil, the beauty of the natural world, and the bonds that cannot be broken.

©2024 Tammy Armstrong (P)2024 HarperCollins Publishers
Animals Coming of Age Genre Fiction
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I really wanted to finish this book. I love the writing, the plot, and the characters. However, I couldn't get past the treatment of the bear. I had to stop listening because I was too invested in the bear and his relationship to the girl. I suppose I could get over it, but as I get older, it is harder to overlook even small atrocities. The author has weaved a fantastic story of myth and magic. I cannot fault her for my own squeamishness.

This is great writing but......

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Nothing to dislike. Held my attention to the end. So so good. Sad it is over!

Such rich descriptive language.

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There are flashes of brilliance mixed in with clumsy missteps which a good editor would have caught. I expect there to be a second novel, and I have reason to hope it will be excellent.

An interesting first try.

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The depiction of life in the woods, the community of hard-working people, the deserved justice in the end- likes all of this.

Strong, free-spirited, disciplined, female character.

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With audible some are hard to know when chapter change happens. This was one of the better ones.

Dedication to family

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