03808cam a2200457 4500 582505026 TxAuBib 20220717120000.0 ||||||s2011||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781935661306 1935661302 B005IE1G88 Amazon 82092e6a-8e8a-4bab-a36f-924d37df50ca OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1002562 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Allen, Sarah Addison. The Firefly Dance [Bridges eBook]. BelleBooks Inc., 2011. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2981kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. gothic southern fiction. quirky southern fiction. fiction for women. southern literary. Southern fiction. anthology. HTML:<p>Bright lights flicker in the dark evenings of summer. Pinpoints of hope float against the black descent of night. The sweetest of small and innocent creatures finds its way through the shadows. Fireflies seem to dance on sheer air, illuminating the space between heartbeats. Children give off a similar brave glow, despite the challenges of their young lives. The lessons of childhood are often painful, the shedding of fragile wings in the gloom of an uncertain future. These rich novellas are small jewels reflecting the essence of what it means to grow up dancing among the shadows of life, carrying a brave, small beacon because you know that even the brightest days always, always, end in darkness. Childhood can be so sweetly sad and sadly sweet, profound and deceptively easy to categorize, yet poignant to remember.</p> <p><i>New York Times</i> bestselling novelist Sarah Addison Allen (<i>Garden Spells, Sugar Queen, The Peach Keeper</i>) anchors <i>The Firefly Dance</i> with her wistful and funny novella about Louise, a North Carolina girl whose keen observations of the lives around her weaves an unforgettable spell with just a hint of everyday magic.</p> <p>Phyllis Schieber's <i>Sonya</i>, a child of Holocaust survivors, is confronted with the responsibilities of her legacy when she has a poignant encounter with a classmate, another child of survivors, and her mother, in a local shop in their 1970's New York neighborhood.</p> <p>Kathryn Magendie's <i>Petey</i> deals wryly with her family's move from the cool blue mountains of North Carolina to the hot flatlands of Texas.</p> <p>Augusta Trobaugh's stoic Georgia boy leads us through his surreal encounter with a mysterious backwoods toddler who turns out to be anything but ordinary.</p>. Short Stories. Literature. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-14 20:00:03. Magendie, Kathryn. Trobaugh, Augusta. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/3569-1/820/92E/6A/FireflyDance9781935661306.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=82092E6A-8E8A-4BAB-A36F-924D37DF50CA&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/3569-1/820/92E/6A/FireflyDance9781935661306.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=82092E6A-8E8A-4BAB-A36F-924D37DF50CA&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/3569-1/820/92E/6A/FireflyDance9781935661306.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=82092E6A-8E8A-4BAB-A36F-924D37DF50CA&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)