Patricia Hruby Powell | `Thirteen Doorways` a wonderful, lyrical tale
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When their mother dies, Frankie and her siblings are sent to an orphanage until their Italian immigrant father can pull himself together and provide for them in `Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All` (Balzer & Bray 2019) by Laura Ruby. Set in late Depression era in Chicago, we see all of society struggling in this National Book Award finalist. Now here´s the kicker. The narrator is a deceased young woman - a ghost - who is able to see what just about everyone and...