
The Silver Star
A Novel
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Jeannette Walls
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Jeannette Walls
From one of the best-selling memoirists of all time, a stunning and heartbreaking novel about an intrepid girl who challenges the injustice of the adult world - a triumph of imagination and storytelling.
It is 1970. "Bean" Holladay is 12 and her sister, Liz, is 15 when their artistic mother, Charlotte, a woman who flees every place she’s ever lived at the first sign of trouble," takes off to find herself." She leaves her girls enough money for food to last a month or two. But when Bean gets home from school one day and sees a police car outside the house, she and Liz board a bus from California to Virginia, where their widowed Uncle Tinsley lives in the decaying antebellum mansion that’s been in the family for generations.
An impetuous optimist, Bean discovers who her father was and learns many stories about why their mother left Virginia in the first place. Money is tight, so Liz and Bean start babysitting and doing office work for Jerry Maddox, foreman of the mill in town, a big man who bullies workers, tenants, and his wife. Bean adores her whip-smart older sister, inventor of word games, reader of Edgar Allan Poe, non-conformist. But when school starts in the fall, it’s Bean who easily adjusts and makes friends, and Liz who becomes increasingly withdrawn. And then something happens to Liz in the car with Maddox.
The author of The Glass Castle, hyper-alert to abuse of adult power, has written a gorgeous, riveting, heartbreaking novel about triumph over adversity and about people who find a way to love the world despite its flaws and injustices.
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Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?
No--the plot is too predictable in many important regards.What was your reaction to the ending? (No spoilers please!)
Too pedestrian.Would you listen to another book narrated by Jeannette Walls?
I have read all of her other books--this is the first one to which I did not give 5 stars, but I am not sure I would try her next book after this disappointment.Does not Measure up to Walls' Other Novels
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I love this author!!!!
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סיפור מקסים. חבל שנגמר :)
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growing up is not easy
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Jeannette walls awesome reading
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Better than The Glass Castle
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Endurance of two young girls.
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What did you like best about The Silver Star? What did you like least?
Jeannette Wall's is a good writer. I look forward to her books.How would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable?
Hire a narrator!What didn’t you like about Jeannette Walls’s performance?
Drab, too like her other books.If this book were a movie would you go see it?
MaybeAny additional comments?
NoHire a narrator!
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Always a Pleasure
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The characters are relatable, the mother being nuts and the family members answering their calls to action.
I really enjoyed all of Jeannette Walls’ books, a lot better than the movie, in fact!!
Lovely book!
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