A Northern Light

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Her mother is dead, her father distracted, and times are tough in upstate New York. Though she's just sixteen, Mattie Gokey has no choice but to hold her family together on her father's brokeback farm. Life would be simpler if Mattie were less determined to forge a different life for herself. When she takes a summer job at a ritzy hotel on Big Moose Lake, Mattie believes she's headed toward a future she can barely allow herself to imagine--mabye as handsome Royal Loomis's bride...or just maybe as a college student in New York City. Not for a minute does she consider that the path might take her through the depths of horror and heartbreak before it leads her toward hope. Set in 1906 against the backdrop of a crime that rocked the nation--the murder that also inspired Theodore Dreiser's AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY and the film A PLACE IN THE SUN--A NORTHERN LIGHT heralds the arrival of a stunning talent. As inspiring as it is chilling, this coming-of-age novel effortlessly combines romance, history, and a murder mystery in a work that is thoroughly original.

"[A]n absorbing story that will appeal strongly to the growing number of historical fiction fans."

Kirkus, 03/15/2003

"Jennifer Donnelly has populated her first young-adult novel with a community of distinctive characters who ring rich and true, and grounded it in often horrific realties of rural life a century ago. We don't just root for Mattie; we come to understand and cherish her."

Sandy MacDonald, New York Times Book Review, 09/21/2003

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