Odette Rising ( Premium Quality)

Moving and fiercely clever. . . a triumph of storytelling.”–Clare Leslie Hall, New York Times bestselling author of Broken CountryA mesmerizing coming-of-age story of an extraordinary young woman in turn-of-the-century France as she rises to find a life she’d never dreamed possibleShe had always felt that she must stay in the shadows, that if she asked for little, she could not feel loss. But here was life and joy.It’s 1897 in Sevres, France and, from her bedroom window, Odette Hure watches a funeral procession carry her father’s coffin away.