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Tiny Dancer (2013)

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Tiny Dancer (2013) - Plot & Excerpts

Just what does an oriental girl doing a ballet leap have to do with a story about a NC Irish step dancer? Nothing. This is a great book; it deserves a better cover. I am a sucker for coming of age books about hard life lessons moving a child into adulthood--this book has a twist in which the kid IS the adult and her parents are the ones who need the hard life lessons to grow up. Most authors go from one extreme to another--either parents are the Waltons and Cleavers or else drunken abusive monsters. This is one of the rare in-between books about a really human family of flawed and foolish but well-intentioned losers, trying hard to force their kids into their own loser mold but too proud and set in their stubborn loser ways to learn better until life smacks them upside the head--more than once. To paraphrase Lady Violet on Downton Abbey, people are never so righteous as when they are wrong. This is not fluff fiction with a simplistic soft plot but real heart and soul life the way real people live it...with all its ups and downs, triumphs and tragedies--heartbreaking at times but filled with enough human spirit and resilience to not be dismal.Patricia Hickman is one of my favorite authors. I have got to read even more of her novels just to see if she has ever written a book that is short of wonderful.

What do You think about Tiny Dancer (2013)?

Loved this book and will be downloading more from Patricia Hickman. It was well written and the story was nicely developed. I was hooked from the beginning.Just when I thought I had the plot figured out, she threw in twists and turns. I laughed and cried. Great story!I grabbed this book when it was free at the recommendation of another great author. However, had I paid for it, I would be just as happy! A few minor editorial issues, but not many!To defend the cover, she dyes her hair in the story. However, a head of beautiful, red curls would have been much more eye catching. Maybe the red clashed with the yellow? ;)
—Tina

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