![]() ![]() The story is much more about Mattie’s life leading up to her job at the hotel, and how she struggles to come into herself as a writer and as an adult, when circumstances and society seem to be conspiring to keep her in place. ![]() Review: Most of the other reviews and descriptions I’ve read about this book (including the back cover) make it out to be a murder mystery (based on a true story), when in fact, the story of Grace Brown’s letters is told in only a few chapters interspersed with Mattie’s backstory, and there’s nothing terribly mysterious about them at all. ![]() Intertwined with this is the story of letters left in Mattie’s care by Grace Brown, a guest of the hotel at which Mattie works, shortly before Grace’s body is discovered, drowned in the lake. She longs to get away, to be free, but is bound to home by her family’s need, a promise made to her dying mother, and a newfound courtship with a neighbor boy who doesn’t understand the joy she finds in the written word. Summary: Mattie Gokey is a sixteen-year-old girl with a gift for writing, a love for books, and a desperate hope to go to college… all dangerous things for a poor, motherless, small-town Adirondack farmer’s daughter to have back in 1906. A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly (2003) ![]()
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