Firefly
少女ファイアフライが、新しい家と家族の意味を探す物語。
作品情報
ファイアフライは、衣装店のある叔母の家で、自分の居場所を探していく。
少女ファイアフライが、新しい家と家族の意味を探す物語。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Dancing Cat Books
- 発売日
- 2021-02-16
- ページ数
- 206ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 20.32 x 1.3 x 13.72 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781770865983
- ISBN-10
- 1770865985
- 価格
- 2222 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Children's Books/Growing Up & Facts of Life/Difficult Discussions/Homelessness & Poverty
Finalist for the 2021 Governor General’s Literary Award for Young People’s Literature - Text Firefly lived in the park across from her mother’s home. It was safer there. But after the bad night happens, and her baseball-bat-wielding mother is taken away, social services sends Firefly to live with her Aunt Gayle. She hardly knows Gayle, but discovers that she owns a costume shop. Yes, Firefly might be suffering from PTSD, but she can get used to taking baths, sleeping on a bed again, and wearing as many costumes as she can to school. But where is “home”? What is “family”? Who is Firefly, for that matter … and which costume is the real one?
Philippa Dowding's most recent book, Firefly , won the 2021 Governor General's Award for Young People's Literature, and her previous book, Oculum , was a finalist for the Diamond Willow Award and the OLA's Silver Birch Award. She lived on a glacier for one summer in university, and was inspired to write environmental dystopia / cli-fi when she visited it thirty years later and was shocked by how much it had melted. Dowding lives in Toronto, ON.
レビュー
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A beautiful story
This is a beautiful story about a girl who navigates her way through challenging life experiences. She finds strength in her own way. Ultimately, Firefly, the main character finds hope and resilience in a difficult world.
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A book so good, I've now read it twice
Philippa Dowding's story is a compelling read from cover to cover. The narrative propels the reader along with deft characterization and setting. I loved it. Deserves a GG!!!!!
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- カナダ総督文学賞 第86回（2021年） ・Winner