The Golden Day
By Ursula Dubosarsky
By Ursula Dubosarsky
By Ursula Dubosarsky
By Ursula Dubosarsky
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$7.99
Apr 28, 2015 | ISBN 9780763676797 | Young Adult
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$15.99
Aug 06, 2013 | ISBN 9780763663995 | Young Adult
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Praise
Dubosarsky’s spare prose explores the space between innocence and adulthood. Shaped by the girls’ growing awareness of the world, her scenes are uneasy dreamscapes. Questions about responsibility, violence, sex, fear and death bloom beneath their placed surface. Unanswerable, they linger past the end of this slender but powerful volume.
—The New York Times
In a stunning feat of perspective, Dubosarsky inhabits all 11 girls at once, snaking through a thousand small joys and triumphs and fears and petty grudges as they absorb life’s bleakest truths as well their own complicity in them… [T]his is a masterful look at children’s numb surprise to the most unsavory of adult developments.
—Booklist (starred review)
Laced with humor amid a steady feeling of dread, the atmospheric narrative chillingly evokes lurking forces capable of tarnishing even the most golden and innocent of days.
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Through precise, vivid descriptions, the third-person narrative evokes the contrast between the girls’ cloistered school lives and the hard realities of the outside world. … Read this slender mystery for the meticulous prose and characterization…
—Kirkus Reviews
Chilling, elegant, atmospheric… Ms. Dubosarsky deftly conveys the confusion of childhood, the strangeness of things half-glimpsed and only partly understood. With quiet brilliance she evokes the distinct personalities of the classmates… "The Golden Day" is the sort of book that churns something up deep inside the reader; it will be as hard for an adult to forget as the young people ages 12 and older for whom it is intended.
—The Wall Street Journal
The Golden Day is deeply magical but also painfully real.
—BookBrowse
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