6/2/2023 0 Comments Maybe a Fox by Kathi Appelt![]() ![]() Mostly what Jules remembered about her mother was the mustard jar, and how it had fallen from the bag of groceries that her mother was carrying and burst open at the foot of the porch steps, scattering pieces of yellow-smeared glass on the gravelly walk, and how her mother had said, "Oh!" in surprise just before she crumpled, her body folded in on itself. It's about two sisters: eleven-year-old jules and twelve-year-old sylvie, living in vermont, being raised by their father after their mother died from a complication of an undiagnosed heart defect when jules was only five. which is fine - i'm not the target audience, and while there are middle grade books i love - books that i read as a child and have residual nostalgic feels for and others i've read as an adult, i'm not gonna respond to all of them here in the chilly autumn of my life. and surface-level it is - it's a sad book that involves a fox, but it didn't do much for me, as a reader. Let's be clear - i read this because of the fox on the cover, thinking it would be like Pax. ![]() It's a sweetly sad middle grade novel about grief and the coping mechanisms and magical thinking we cling to in order to carry on living in the aftermath of devastating loss. 3.5 rounding up to 4 because this book wasn't written for old ladies like me with no juice left in their hearts. ![]()
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