![]() ![]() The second story follows an orphaned boy and his brother in Depression-era America, as they interact with a wealthy heiress who is considering adoption. The first features a boy in Germany in the early 1930s, dealing with the fact that his older sister is embracing Hitlerism even as he himself is faced with possible sterilization due to past medical issues. The three vignettes are fairly different from one another. The frame story, which we only encounter at the very beginning and the very end of the book, reads like a fairy tale -with a boy lost in the dark Germanic woods meeting with three magical nymph-like ladies who give him a prophecy. But after the first few pages, the narrative transitions to well-grounded historical fiction-three different historical fiction vignettes in fact- loosely tied together by strains of music from a very special harmonica. At first, I thought it was going to be a magical realism novel. For another thing, it doesn’t fit easily into a single genre. ![]() ![]() (Yet it won that honor for 2016.) For one thing, it’s much longer than most Newbery books, finishing out at nearly 600 pages. ![]()
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