INTERMEDIATE FICTION
Hoffman, Alice

Green Angel

(2) 4-6 From her idyllic village home, Green watches as the city across the river is suddenly blown to bits--the city where her family has gone to sell vegetables. Sewing thorns to her clothes and nails to her boots, Green tries to create a shield against grief, against all feeling. Her journey, we know, will be to rediscover the life inside her armor. Hoffman's fairy-tale prose lends moments of lyricism to Green's sympathetic story of rebirth.

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