{"id":243,"date":"2007-08-29T11:28:04","date_gmt":"2007-08-29T16:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danversreads.wordpress.com\/2007\/08\/29\/rain-village-carolyn-turgeon\/"},"modified":"2007-08-29T11:28:04","modified_gmt":"2007-08-29T16:28:04","slug":"rain-village-carolyn-turgeon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=243","title":{"rendered":"Rain Village ~ Carolyn Turgeon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/rain-village.jpg\" title=\"rain-village.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/danversreads.files.wordpress.com\/2007\/08\/rain-village.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"rain-village.jpg\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 If you&#8217;re looking to read something a little different, try this novel. The main character is Tessa Riley, a 12 year old girl living on a farm in Kansas. She just can&#8217;t seem to fit in. She is unusually petite, which makes her farm chores more difficult. Her family has very little use for her, she is ridiculed by her classmates and has no friends. She does love to read and discovers the new librarian at the small town library. Mary Finn is a strikingly beautiful woman with an ethereal quality and a\u00a0hint of sadness. She befriends Tessa and regales\u00a0her with stories of\u00a0the beautiful village she grew up in\u00a0and her experience as a trapeze artist in the circus. \u00a0She teaches her the art of the trapeze and encourages her to maintain her uniqueness. Following an experience of unspeakable\u00a0cruelty\u00a0and an horrific\u00a0tragedy, Tessa leaves home to join the circus.\u00a0Tessa&#8217;s journey\u00a0comes to\u00a0life\u00a0with the\u00a0author&#8217;s\u00a0beautiful imagery and a prose that is almost as magical and mystical as the characters themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 If you&#8217;re looking to read something a little different, try this novel. The main character is Tessa Riley, a 12 year old girl living on a farm in Kansas. She just can&#8217;t seem to fit in. She is unusually petite, which makes her farm chores more difficult. Her family has very little use for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-ya"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6V6sR-3V","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}