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The Firefly Dance (2011)

by Sarah Addison Allen(Favorite Author)

3.54 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1935661302 (ISBN13: 9781935661306)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

BelleBooks, Inc.

review 1: The Firefly Dance is a collection of four short stories. The first story is a tale of the children of Holocaust survivors entwined with a changing world. We see a link between the disappearance of the specialty store and the personal service provided and the tenuous nature of memories of the past. The second story was my favorite and tells the changing childhood of a North Carolina girl as her family must move to Texas so that her father can get a job. Multiple hardships hit the family, but Petey manages to forge new connections while seeing the bittersweet changes in her life. The third story was my least favorite and focuses on a lost toddler who may be far more than he initially seems. The final story is by Sarah Addison Allen and involves a young woman and her connecti... moreons to her mother and Aunt Sophie, seeing their quirks and biases in a small town. I didn’t connect to this as much as her full length novels, maybe because there was not enough time for the characters to develop.
review 2: I enjoy Sarah Addison Allen's writing, and when this book popped up on my radar, I realized there was something of hers out there I hadn't read! Luckily, all the authors really brought great stories, so while I bought the book just for one author, I lucked out! The four stories in this book are poignant memories told from all different points of view. You have Phyllis Schieber's "The Stocking Store", how a teen sees her world through observing other people. Kathryn Mugendie's "Petey" shows the strength of a young girl who has to move with her family to a new state for her father's job. Loss, homesickness, strength, family, and friends are center at different times in this story, and is really well written. Augusta Trobaugh's "Resurrection" shows a dysfunctional family and a young boy's way of dealing, and Sarah Addison Allen's "Fly By Night" is the view of a young girl growing up during happiness, loss, and how family gets her through it. less

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