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Bright lamps flicker in the dark evenings of summer. Pinpoints of desire float resistant to the black descent of nighttime. The sweetest of small and innocent animals confirms its way through the shadows. Fireflies seem to be to dance on utter air, illuminating the area between heartbeats. Children produce a similar fearless glow, regardless of the challenges of these young lives. The lessons of childhood are often agonizing, the shedding of fragile wings in the gloam of an uncertain future. These rich novellas are small jewels reflecting the fact of what it means to grow up dancing among the shadows of life, taking a fearless, small beacon because you know that even the brightest days and nights always, always, end in darkness. Child years can be so sweetly unfortunate and sadly great, profound and deceptively easy to categorize, yet poignant to remember. New York Times best-selling novelist Sarah Addison Allen (Garden Spells, Glucose Queen, The Peach Keeper) anchors The Firefly Dance with her wistful and funny novella about Louise, a NEW YORK girl whose willing observations of the lives around her weaves an remarkable spell with just a hint of everyday magic. Phyllis Schieber's Sonya, a child of Holocaust survivors, is met with the tasks of her legacy when she's a poignant come across with a classmate, another child of survivors, and her mother, in a local shop in their 1970's New York neighborhood. Kathryn Magendie's Petey offers wryly with her family's move from the cool blue mountains of NEW YORK to the hot flatlands of Tx. Augusta Trobaugh's stoic Georgia young lady leads us through her surreal come across with a strange backwoods young child who turns out to be anything but normal.
