All Rivers Flow to the Sea
by Alison McGhee
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After a car accident in the Adirondacks leaves her older sister Ivy brain-dead, seventeen-year-old Rose struggles with her grief and guilt as she slowly learns to let her sister go.Tags
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"Because Ivy and I had an accident. It was the end of the winter, dusk in Adirondacks, and we came around a curve. And then Ivy wasn't moving, and she wasn't answering, and was she breathing? Blood. My window was broken and I broke it more. I punched it with my jacket wrapped around my hand, punched and punched, and I crawled out and fell up. We were upside down? How had that happened? I ran."
Rose and Ivy were in a car accident. Ivy now lies in a vegetative state in a nursing home. Rose must cope with survivor's guilt, her mother's growing distance, and the fact that half of herself, her sister Ivy, won't ever return. Rose is still water, trapped behind a dam, and all she wants is to flow to the sea.
Alison McGhee lyrically, yet show more succinctly, tells the story of one girl's healing process.
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Rose and Ivy were in a car accident. Ivy now lies in a vegetative state in a nursing home. Rose must cope with survivor's guilt, her mother's growing distance, and the fact that half of herself, her sister Ivy, won't ever return. Rose is still water, trapped behind a dam, and all she wants is to flow to the sea.
Alison McGhee lyrically, yet show more succinctly, tells the story of one girl's healing process.
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This book was amazing. I loved the writing style as it add more emphasis on the situation and made the character's views on her life that much more intense. This is one of the only books that actually made me cry, it was so sad, but it had a somewhat-happy ending as she finds love and forgiveness and moves on.
Rose and her sister, Ivy, are involved in a car accident in the Adirondacks that has left Ivy in a coma. Rose visits her sister in the hospital daily, and observes how those around her deal with the trauma that has shattered their world. As Rose finds ways to deal with the pain she is going through, McGhee's lyrical prose beautifully describes the inner-workings of Rose's mind and heart. A line that has stayed with me, months after I finished reading the book: "My heart is breaking."
This book will stay with you long after you put it down.
This book will stay with you long after you put it down.
17 year-old Rose and her older sister Ivy were in a car accident in the Adirondacks. Ivy has been on life support eversince and Rose has not been able to move on. She visits her everyday because she is Ivy's sister. But her mother who keeps Ivy on life support has never visted at the nursing home. Rose wants to feel and lets herself be used by boys at school, but that doesn't help. Sometimes beautiful though somewhat repetitive.
This book made me want to make 1000 paper cranes.
It was sad and depressing. But I liked it!
It was sad and depressing. But I liked it!
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Alison McGhee lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She is the recipient of a Loft-McKnight Fellowship, a Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship, a 1995 Editor's Fiction Prize from Snake nation, and a Pushcart Prize honorable mention. Her title Bink and Gollie, Two for One with Kate DiCamillo made The New York Times Best Seller List for 2012. (Publisher show more Provided) Alison McGhee was born on July 8, 1960 and attended Middlebury College in Vermont. Her first book, Rainlight, won the Great Lakes College Association National Fiction Award and the Minnesota Book Award in 1999. She writes books for all ages including picture books like Countdown to Kindergarten and Mrs. Watson Wants Your Teeth, young adult books like Snap and All Rivers Flow to the Sea, and adult books like Shadow Baby and Was It Beautiful?. Her other awards include four Minnesota Book Awards, the GLCA National Fiction Award, Friends of the American Library Award, Gold Oppenheimer Toy Portfolio Award, ALA Best Books for Children, and Parents' Choice Award, and a City Pages Artist of the Year award. She is currently an associate professor of creative writing at Metropolitan State University. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original publication date
- 2005
- People/Characters
- Rose Latham; Tom Miller; William T. Jones
- Important places
- Adirondack Mountains, New York, USA; New York, USA; USA
- Dedication
- To Laurel Blackett, Kate DiCamillo, Holly McGhee, Julie Schumacher, Ellen Harris Swiggett, and Meredith Wade -- sisters all.
- First words
- Here is the school bus.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Everything that came later would come, but first, there was that moment, that moment of Ivy above us, whirling above us through the darkness, out the paneless window toward the moon, toward the unfathomable reaches of space, and laughing.
- Blurbers
- Mazer, Norma Fox
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- Fiction and Literature, Teen, Young Adult, Children's Books
- DDC/MDS
- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PZ7 .M4784675 .A — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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