![]() John’s Newfoundland, she has friends with whom she can leave her pet tortoise Winnifred, and, however eye-rollingly, they do accommodate the tortoise’s special needs. When she finds out her father is ill and she must fly across the continent from Oregon back to her home of St. She’s referred to, lovingly, as Oddly, and this is the main thing about her, I think– that she is loved. So what is with it with Audrey Flowers exactly? For she’s a strange one, certainly, the product of a rather unconventional upbringing, and in possession a decidedly unconventional point of view. ![]() Fortunate because her premise is so intriguing, and the book itself is so physically appealing, that the substance of the story itself has an awful to live up to. A grander scheme has to be in play in order for a quirky book to mean more than that, and so it is fortunate that in her first novel Come, Thou Tortoise, Jessica Grant so deftly pulls the strings. Bookwise, “quirky” is a demeaning term, and it only gets you so far. ![]()
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