Oh My Stars, (Paperback)

from LibrarianGramma

This is one of the top 3 books I have read in the past decade. I loved it. The story was gripping and no where along the way did I want to put it down. It is the one book I ALWAYS recommend to my library patrons.

from kebets

Another Landvik gem. I love her quirky characters and her northern settings. The people ring true because they are like the people that we know... Here is a story of a woman who has had all the hardship life has to offer before she is 16 - her mother ran off, her father abused her and neglected h...

from punxsygal

Violet Mathers, abandoned by her mother and mistreated by her father, is on a bus to California when it crashes in North Dakota. Her life is never the same after being rescued by two musicians. This novel gives a glimpse of life on the road in the post Depression era, as well as the racial tensio...

from KinnicChick

As with all of Ms. Landvik's books (in my opinion, of course), this one had it all. I found myself giggling and gasping and at one point quietly crying. I've said in reviews before that I do not like to be intentionally pulled around by an author through the gamut of emotions and there are certai...

from pandalibrarian

Lorna Landvik is one of my all-time favorite authors. Most of Landvik's books take place in Minnesota, but this one travels around the country more with the focus ending up in North Dakota. Violet is an excellent seamstress and is working at a thread factory when she loses her arm in an industria...