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 Very slow August 12, 2008
Alyssa Szerlip (So Cal)
I had a very hard time getting into the story. I did love little Lark and kept cheering for her and the dream of the house that she wanted. I did want Lark and her Mother to get away from her father. If the story moved a little faster and was a little less choppy with fewer characters it would have been a better story. The story is sweet just not an easy read.
 A fine read June 18, 2008
W Richard. Trimble (Ridgecrest, CA United States)
This is literature and story telling at its best. Sullivan catches you immediately and satisfies your craving for a good read.
Great book! November 8, 2005
Joanna Mechlinski (CT, USA)
Although she's only six years old, Lark knows all too well just how her gambler father holds her and her mother back from their dreams. The trio has lived in a sectioned room within the train depot where her father works since Lark was born -- and where she continues to sleep in a crib beside her parents. Still, she and her mother dream of building a Cape Ann home, where they will live in splendor and happiness. This is quite the feat during Depression-era America, though the two refuse to let anything get in their way...even if it means leaving behind those they love.
Great storytelling October 16, 2005
M. B Escobar (Acworth, GA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've had this book for several years, ever since I saw it in a picture done by Mary Engelbreit, but I just now read it. The writing is so great, it made an average story so very interesting. The author's descriptions of characters and situations were incredible, like things I would think, but would never be able to put into words. She uses wonderful imagery like when she describes an evening as "an awkward and heavy buden which we must pull op a long, difficult hill". Even though the father is clearly a jerk, you can feel his struggle as he loves his family, but just doesn't know how to show it. It's a story told with such vivid language that it makes in amazing.
Unforgettable July 21, 2004
Polkadotty (Mountains of Western North Carolina)
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
Once in a very great while a book comes along that is truly unforgettable; 'The Cape Ann' is just such. Wise, warm, and unflinching, Faith Sullivan skillfully captures the innocence and questionings inherent in childhood, and the funny, difficult, illuminating, shocking, and ultimately indelible lessons one learns along the way. You shall grow to love Lark and her mother, you will cheer them on as they struggle through obstacles to make for themselves the type of life that they wish for, dream of, and deserve. The small town of Harvester, Minnesota, the characters with their heartbreaks and yearnings and triumphs and failures both big and small, the rural lifestyle, the Depression era ~ everything interweaves so flawlessly that you'll lose yourself in this book, and feel sorry when it draws to a close. Within these pages you'll have met a host of good, affectionate, honest-hearted people, and some not so, and you'll be the better for the knowing of them, and the world in which they live. Extremely highly recommended, one of my most treasured literary finds. Waste no time in getting a copy for yourself.
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