Alyce at At Home with Books hosts this meme – and it’s one of my favorites.  This week I want to talk about a favorite of mine that I discovered last year.  I had a giveaway of this book last January and it sits on my shelf begging to be re-read again.. and I think I’ll give into that urge here soon.  The name of the book is A Long, Long Time Ago & Essentially True by Brigid Pasulka.

I seriously cannot endorse this book enough.  It’s Brigid’s first novel and she hits it out of the ballpark.  There’s this.. whimsical, magical feeling about the story that captured me from the start and I couldn’t set the book down.  Here is my review.

A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True by Brigid Pasulka

And the Pigeon was no glupek about women either. He had learned something aobut them from his eight sisters, and if over the years he had absorbed only this one thing, it would stand as vindication that a boy does not suffer needlessly from growing up in a house with eight sisters. That thing was that a woman’s heart is not bought by the currency of a man’s emotion for her. A woman’s heart is won over by her own feelings for herself when hej ust happens to be around, and as the hut slowly transformed itself into a three-room mansion around her, Anielica could not help but feel even more beautiful, even more worthy.

The above passage is just one of many that I fell in love with when reading this book. I laughed, I cried, I cooed and sighed all the way through. I savored every page and was saddened to come to the end of such a precious, whimsical yet heartbreaking and gladdening story.

The story of Pigeon and Anielica is a story that, I think, everyone would love to have in their family history. And perhaps, we do. Love, loss, heartbreak, passion and loyalty through some of the worst possible times. I can’t say more without totally giving away the book and I want you all to read it and enjoy it as much as I did. But please, read it.

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