Above Us Only Sky

Name: Above Us Only Sky
Brand: HighBridge Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Young-Stone Michele
ISBN: 9781622316250

Author: Young-Stone Michele

Narrator: Cassandra Campbell

Unabridged: 9 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Highbridge Audio

Published: 03/03/2015

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

A spellbinding story about a family of women separated by oceans, generations and war, but connected by something much greater-- the gift of wings. Prudence Eleanor Vilkas was born with a pair of wings molded to her back. Considered a birth defect, her wings were surgically removed, leaving only the ghost of them behind. Growing up in Los Vientos, Florida Prudence meets her long-estranged Lithuanian grandfather and discovers a miraculous lineage beating and pulsing with the past Lituanian bird-women. ABOVE US ONLY SKY is the story of Prudence and the Vilkas women as the novel spans centuries. Most of all, it is a story of moral understanding between the old and young; a story of survival, and most importantly about where we belong in the world.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lolly K Dandeneau

Oh so good. I picked this arc up hoping it would be the sort of magical realism that would fill the reader up and it does. So many emotions between the pages of this beautiful story about a young girl, Prudence Vilkas, who is born with wings just like her paternal great Aunt. Her parents have them r......more

Goodreads review by Karen

Prudence was born with wings (surgically removed at birth). This book takes us back to her ancestors on her fathers side and both grandparents histories in Lithuania and Germany (both grandparents had so much tragedy in their lives) and her connection to them... Many threads and characters that all......more

Goodreads review by Celia

Summary that I used found in Supersummary.com: Above Us Only Sky, a magical realism book by Michele Young-Stone, follows a young girl born with wings who goes searching for the secrets of her family’s past. Prudence Vilkas is the main character. The narrative moves in perspective between modern-day Pr......more