This book got me to cry--actually cry--while reading it, for the first time in what, months? A year? I don't even know how long it's been. I think the only other time I've been moved to tears by a work of fiction is |Matthew Cuthbert|'s death in the 1985 movie version of |Anne of Green Gables|.
And this isn't a depressing book. It's not a tragic book, either. It's not even a math textbook. It's more like you took the lid off a jar of raw emotions and are watching sadness and grief and yearning and hope mix around inside.
This is about a firefly and a cricket, aptly named Firefly and Cricket, who've been told all their lives that Giants Are Dangerous and Don't Go Near Giants and Giants Will Just Accidentally Kill You For No Reason. "Giants," of course, being humans. Buuuut they find a sad (|grieving|) human kid, with whom they become friends eventually.
And things happen, culminating in Firefly |trying to fly to the moon, discovering she's too high up to breathe, passing out, and falling out of the sky. She doesn't die, though, due to the heroic efforts of Cricket and that vole on the cover|.
Were this a videogame, I'd rate it: E.
4 stars. It's good.
(Endnote: The art in this is completely adorable.)
It's very refreshing to know that a 16 year old young man could be brought to tears by such a tender book. If we had more of you, our world would not be in such a mess. - Grammy
ReplyDeleteOur world would at least be in a different mess, at any rate.
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