Friday, January 14, 2005
The Onion Girl by Charles De Lint - Recommended by Ragon
I've read a few other of Charles De Lint's books; they were mostly about the ways in which the fairy (not to be confused with those little sparkly things with butterfly wings) beings interact with the human world and how some humans can interact with both the fairy world and beings.
Onion Girl tells the backstory for one of De Lint's well known characters, Jilly Coppercorn. In a series of first person story telling, several people tell their stories of growing up as abused children. The stories and what happened to those children tie together with a crisis in Jilly's life. The characters suffer, and worry, and learn to forgive themselves and other people who were hurt in the same way that they were hurt as children. Thousands of children suffer physical, emotional, and sexual abuse every year' some of those children die and others become shadows which are not clearly seen by the general population or by people who could help them. The power of help offered and given is stated in several ways.
A great story, sad in its truth and giving a ray of hope if only people will care.
Onion Girl tells the backstory for one of De Lint's well known characters, Jilly Coppercorn. In a series of first person story telling, several people tell their stories of growing up as abused children. The stories and what happened to those children tie together with a crisis in Jilly's life. The characters suffer, and worry, and learn to forgive themselves and other people who were hurt in the same way that they were hurt as children. Thousands of children suffer physical, emotional, and sexual abuse every year' some of those children die and others become shadows which are not clearly seen by the general population or by people who could help them. The power of help offered and given is stated in several ways.
A great story, sad in its truth and giving a ray of hope if only people will care.
# posted by JJ @ 1:57 PM 
