Odette Rising

Available from Nook & Cranny Books when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

“Moving and fiercely clever. . . a triumph of storytelling.” — Clare Leslie Hall, New York Times bestselling author of Broken Country A mesmerizing coming-of-age story of an extraordinary young woman in turn-of-the-century France as she rises to find a life she’d never dreamed possible She had always felt that she must stay in the shadows, that if she asked for little, she could not feel loss. But here was life and joy. It’s 1896 in Sèvres, France and, from her bedroom window, Odette Huré watche