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A Powerful and Poignant Coming-of-Age Tale A nosy young girl is on a quest to learn her family's hidden truths no matter who it upsets. Ten-year-old Willie Ma doesn't just live near the town of Feral, she's a bit feral herself. Spending her days eavesdrop- ping, exploring on her bike, and avoiding her brutish big brother, she's determined to uncover the secrets adults are clearly trying to keep from her. Raised in a Holy Roller family, Willie ...

Altars of Ordinary Light, in part, revives powerful memories of a coastal childhood with imagery as sharp as the scent of low tide in a salt marsh. June Sylvester Saraceno focuses a subject, adjusts the light and angle until it reveals what we have been too busy to see-the eloquence and sanctity of the everyday. These poems nicely balance light and dark, humor and sorrow. In "Scars, " she writes: "My body is a book / I reread the lines to find...