The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender

Teen & Young Adult Science Fiction & Dystopian Romance

Author: Leslye Walton

Magical realism, lyrical prose, and the pain and passion of human love haunt this hypnotic generational saga.Foolish love appears to be the Roux family birthright, an ominous forecast for its most recent progeny, Ava Lavender. Ava—in all other ways a normal girl—is born with the wings of a bird.In a quest to understand her peculiar disposition and a growing desire to fit i….Read More

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