Sticklebacks and Snow Globes By B A Goodjohn

My sister stays snow globes are just things in glass balls, but shes wrong. Its like the wold worlds inside, ready to shake.

Sticklebacks and Snow Globes depicts life on a housing estate just outside London as seen through the eyes of a group of neighbourhood kids... Theres Tot, who is good at watching, waiting and working things out. And theres a lot that demands close attention including her own epilepsy the bullied Indian boy, Keesal, and a father who dreams of making it as a jazz trumpeter in New Orleans, Acconpmanying Tot are her sister, Dorothy who longs to be a boy; and Lilly, who is getting herself a bit of a reputation. And ruling the roost are the hard working, put upon mothers with all their scary tales of womanhood to absorb.

In her beguiling debut. B. A Goodjohn follows these endearing characters over the course of one year reminding us all of the pleasure and pain of childhood,.

In this magical debut, working class life becomes a sort of quotidian wonderland starring children clever and strange and very real... A cozy, richy written delight. KIRKUS STARRED REVIEW

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