Madapple, Christina Meldrum
Madapple, Christina Meldrum
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Madapple

Author: Christina Meldrum

Narrator: Kirsten Potter

Unabridged: 11 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/13/2008


Synopsis

THE SECRETS OF the past meet the shocks of the present.
Aslaug is an unusual young woman. Her mother has brought her up in near isolation, teaching her about plants and nature and language—but not about life. Especially not how she came to have her own life, and who her father might be.

When Aslaug’s mother dies unexpectedly, everything changes. For Aslaug is a suspect in her mother’s death. And the more her story unravels, the more questions unfold. About the nature of Aslaug’s birth. About what she should do next.

About whether divine miracles have truly happened. And whether, when all other explanations are impossible, they might still happen this very day.

Addictive, thought-provoking, and shocking, Madapple is a page-turning exploration of human nature and divine intervention—and of the darkest corners of the human soul.

About The Author

Christina Meldrum is a former attorney who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Madapple is her first novel.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Maja (The Nocturnal Library) on October 02, 2014

Wow. When I started Madapple yesterday, I had no idea what I was signing up for. Had I known what was ahead of me, I don’t think I would have picked it up. You see, I expected it to be paranormal (although I’m not sure why), and it wasn’t. I never expected it to be about child abuse, kidnapping, dru......more

Goodreads review by karen on May 13, 2021

i fully intended to like this more than i did. because my four here should be interpreted as three-and-a-half with four-star potential. the things i liked: structure. i love books like this, with a dual narrative approaching each other like tiny trains. the present-day storyline running along and get......more

Goodreads review by Emily May on March 30, 2012

Apart from a few annoyingly unanswered questions, this book was simply fantastic. I had been misinformed about Madapple and believed it to be a book mostly about teen pregnancy, but though the book does contain this, it is actually about much more exciting stuff. It's realistic fiction and yet t......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer on November 17, 2012

Reviewed by Harmony for TeensReadToo.com I finished reading MADAPPLE last night and, for the first time ever, I sat staring at the book in shock. For fifteen minutes. I was ready to laugh, to cry, and to scream in frustration. Never before have I read a book that left me feeling that way after finish......more

Goodreads review by Heather on June 07, 2008

The plot of this book was unusual, but slightly unrealistic. The main character lives in seclusion with her mother. She doesn't know anything about the outside world and a good bit about science. While the home schooled seclusion was odd but not too weird, I found myself wondering how her mother, a......more


Quotes

Starred Review, Booklist, April 1, 2008:
"There is much to ponder in this enthralling achievement from a debut author."

Starred Review, Kirkus Reviews, May 1, 2008:
"With this spellbinding debut, Meldrum marks herself as an author to watch."

Review, Vanity Fair, June 2008:
"In debut novelist Christina Meldrum's mesmerizing literary mystery MADAPPLE (Knopf), the worlds of science and faith collide."

Starred Review, Publisher's Weekly, May 26, 2008:
"Audiences will need some intellectual mettle for the densely seeded ideas, but they won't be able to stop reading."

Starred Review, School Library Journal, July 2008:
"[A] riveting and mind-opening experience."


Awards

  • ALA Best Books for Young Adults
  • Amazon Best of the Year So Far
  • Booklist Children's Editors' Choice
  • Kirkus Reviews Best Young Adult Books
  • New Jersey Garden State Teen Book Award
  • New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age
  • Tennessee Volunteer State Book Award