Decidedly eh. The prose was pretty and Minou was a likable main character, but both of the parents really bothered me. The father--says he uses reason and yet believes his brother's paranormal bs; objectifies the death of a young boy and tries to subsume everyone, even his loved ones, in his poin...
This is the story of a girl named Minou coming to grips with the sudden disappearance of her Mama about a year ago. Minou lives on a small lighthouse island with her Papa sometime after "the War" (which I assume is WWII, though the story never specifies). The island's only other residents are Pri...