This book broke my bad reading spell. Reading it was like eating a Krispy Creme Doughnut after starving for a month. It was that good folks.
A Northern Light is actually classified as a young adult novel. This is the genre that provided us with The Hunger Games so it's definitely not just for kids.
Matty Gokey is a young woman growing up in a difficult situation. Her mother has died. She has three younger sisters to take care of. Her older brother has run off leaving her to help their father run a farm that is far more than she can handle. Worse than all this, Matty is a writer who dreams of going to college. She earns a scholarship but her father, initially, will not allow her to get a job at one of the local hotels to earn the money she will need for travel, books and lodging.
This book has a 'story within a story' about the murder of a guest at the hotel. It's loosely based on the story of Chester Gillette.
The whole thing is so well written. I couldn't find one sentence in the whole deal to make fun of.
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