The Stars at Oktober Bend, Glenda Millard
The Stars at Oktober Bend, Glenda Millard
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The Stars at Oktober Bend

Author: Glenda Millard

Narrator: Candice Moll, Ron Butler

Unabridged: 5 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 05/08/2018

Synopsis

Nominee for the 2019 Audie Award for Young AdultBeautiful, lyrical prose, told in two voices, lifts up a poignant story of two traumatized teens who find each other in a small riverside town.i am the girl manny loves. the girl who writes our story in the book of flying. i am alice.Alice is fifteen, with hair as red as fire and skin as pale as bone. Something inside Alice is broken: she remembers words, but struggles to speak them. Still, Alice knows that words are for sharing, so she pins them to posters in tucked-away places: railway waiting rooms, fish-and-chips shops, quiet corners. Manny is sixteen, with a scar from shoulder to elbow. Something inside Manny is broken, too: he once was a child soldier, forced to do terrible, violent things. But in a new land with people who care for him, Manny explores the small town on foot. And in his pocket, he carries a poem he scooped up, a poem whose words he knows by heart. The relationship between Alice and Manny will be the beginning of love and healing. And for these two young souls, perhaps, that will be good enough.

About Glenda Millard

Glenda Millard is an award-winning author of numerous books for children and young adults, including the novel A Small Free Kiss in the Dark, which was a Queensland Premier’s Literary Award winner, a Children’s Book Council of Australia Honor Book, a New South Wales Premier’s Literary Award short list selection, and an International Board on Books for Young People Honor List selection. She is also the author of the picture books Isabella’s Garden, illustrated by Rebecca Cool, and Once a Shepherd, illustrated by Phil Lesnie. Glenda Millard lives in Australia.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kelly Brigid ♡ on September 20, 2018

"Their eyes were very full because they had seen many things, but their lips could not be opened to speak of what they had seen." An intriguing concept, but uneventful story. Although I greatly appreciate the unique narrative and voice of the protagonist, Alice, I didn’t find the plot par......more

Goodreads review by Lara on September 08, 2017

This book was not at all what I expected from reading the blurb, but it was a wonderful story nontheless. It had really nice, unique characters, a well developed setting and a good plot. However, when you are starting the book, the style takes some time to get used to. The parts of the story told fr......more

Goodreads review by Julie Parks on May 03, 2018

This book was soul abrasive. Poetic and scarring. Something you know you're honored to have visited but never wish to return to. For some reason, reading this book made me think of an ocean shore. One that's cold and yet also refreshing when it's scorching outside. That feeling when you're coming out......more

Goodreads review by Jenna on February 11, 2016

4.5 stars. This review also appears on my blog, Reading with Jenna. I received a copy of this book from the publisher. All thoughts and opinions are my own. How do I even begin to find the words to express how much this book meant to me? This was an absolutely beautiful story about overcoming adversit......more

Goodreads review by Anne on February 27, 2016

The style, while intensely beautiful, lyrical and poetic, makes for a baffling read at times. Particularly since those chapters from Alice's point of view are all without capitals. Her thoughts jump and sizzle with half-revealed clues and memories peeping out of repression. So the strange punctuatio......more

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