Hurricane Season, Nicole Melleby
Hurricane Season, Nicole Melleby
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Hurricane Season

Author: Nicole Melleby

Narrator: Stina Nielsen

Unabridged: 6 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 05/07/2019


Synopsis

This debut novel-about taking risks and facing danger, about love and art, and about growing up and coming out-will make its way straight into your heart. Fig, a sixth grader, wants more than anything to see the world as her father does. The once-renowned pianist, who hasn't composed a song in years and has unpredictable good and bad days, is something of a mystery to Fig. Though she's a science and math nerd, she tries taking an art class just to be closer to him, to experience life the way an artist does. But then Fig's dad shows up at school, disoriented and desperately searching for Fig. Not only has the class not brought Fig closer to understanding him, it has brought social services to their door. Diving into books about Van Gogh to understand the madness of artists, calling on her best friend for advice, and turning to a new neighbor for support, Fig continues to try everything she can think of to understand her father, to save him from himself, and to find space in her life to discover who she is even as the walls are falling down around her. Nicole Melleby's Hurricane Season is a stunning novel about a girl struggling to be a kid as pressing adult concerns weigh on her. It's also about taking risks and facing danger, about love and art, and about coming of age and coming out. And more than anything else, it is a story of the healing power of love-and the limits of that power.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Rachel

4 stars! What an excellent middle grade novel about mental health and family. Hurricane Season is about sixth grader Fig who lives with her father. He once was a very talented musician but hasn’t been able to compose any new music in years. But lately he’s been disoriented and acting strange in fron......more

Goodreads review by Joshua

I do not have the words for how much I enjoyed HURRICANE SEASON, or how important a book I think it will be to many kids. Fig and her dad are on their own. She's a sixth grader, trying to navigate that tumultuous age--while simultaneously taking care of her dad, an out-of-the-game musician whose men......more

just as good (and even better) the third time around this book means so much to me *cries* ______________________________ so. this little book means the world to me. “The sadness will last forever,” Vincent had said to Theo, moments before he died. Fig thought maybe she could understand him now. S......more

Goodreads review by Naomi

This is a beautiful, must-read book for MG readers - and their parents. Covering everything from Vincent Van Gogh (in the best way possible) to mental illness to sexuality, this debut novel has it all - and it is all done with grace and compassion and great care. Fig and her story will stay with you......more