First Chapter ~ First Paragraph Tuesday Intro - The Year She Left Us; Kathryn Ma

Every Tuesday I host First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday Intros, where I share the first paragraph or (a few) of a book I am reading or thinking about reading soon. Care to join us? Today's pick is a book that will be released in May.

 The Year She Left Us; Kathryn Ma

Harper Collins - May 2014

"Lucky girl.  That's what I was told from the first moment I can remember.  Another stranger, smelling unlike my mother, would swoop in low with a scary-wide smile to ruffle my hair or pinch my cheek.  I would shrink and scamper, hide my face in my mother's knees, hear them laughing at my baby shyness.  Later, I stared, black-eyed and baleful.  I hated to be reminded.  Hello, Ariadne.  What a lucky little girl.  Now you have a family.  I'm  the one who's lucky my mother would always chirp.  She knew my fell looks, was afraid of my eruptions, my locked face and the storms that followed.  When left alone, I would say please and thank you.  When prompted to be grateful, I went gleefully mute."

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