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I am convinced that at birth the cake has already been baked. Nurture is the nuts or frosting, but if you’re a spice cake, you’re a spice cake, and nothing is going to change you into an angel food.
Tall, slender Violet Mathers keeps growing up in the fantastic Depression, that could just as well define her mind-set. Abandoned by her mother as a kid, mistreated by her father, and teased by her schoolmates (“Hey, Olive Oyl, where’s Popeye?”), the lonely girl finds solace in artistic pursuits. Only once she’s hired by the town’s sole feminist to work the night shift in the neighborhood thread factory does Violet enter into her name, and bloom. Accepted by her co-workers, the teenager enters the happiest phase of her life, until an awful accident causes her to retreat once more into her lonely shell.
Realizing that she's only 1 clear choice, Violet boards a bus heading west to California. But when the bus crashes in North Dakota, it appears that Fate is having another cruel laugh at Violet’s expense. This time though, Violet laughs back. She and her fellow passengers are rescued by two men: Austin Sykes, whom Violet is for certain is the blackest man to ever set foot on the North Dakota prairie, and Kjel Hedstrom, who inspires feelings Violet never before has felt. Kjel and Austin are musicians whose sound is similar to no other, and with pluck, verve, and wit, Violet becomes part of their quest to make a new kind of music together.
Oh My Stars is Lorna Landvik’s most ambitious novel yet, with a cast of characters whose travails and triumphs you’ll long remember. It really is a tale of love and hope, bigotry and betrayal, loss and discovery–as Violet, who’s always considered herself a minor character in her own life story, emerges as a heroine you’ll laugh with, cry with, and, most important, cheer for all your way.
From the Hardcover edition.
