Ink
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فرمت کتاب
audiobook
تاریخ انتشار
2018
Lexile Score
760
Reading Level
3-4
نویسنده
Amy Shielsناشر
Scholastic Audioشابک
9781338254532
کتاب های مرتبط
- اطلاعات
- نقد و بررسی
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نقد و بررسی
December 18, 2017
An urgent fear of otherness permeates Broadway’s eerie debut, set in a society where tattoos tell a person’s life story and to be without them is to be unknowable. In Saintstone, lawbreakers are marked and publicly shamed, babies who die before getting their first tattoo are forgotten, and so-called “blanks” (whose bodies are free of tattoos) are loathed. Sixteen-year-old Leora’s father is dead, his skin dried and bound into a book; she must unravel her family’s secrets before the community’s elders make a determination that he is to be forgotten, and the pages of his book burned. Through it’s not fully clear why tattoos and skin books are the only ways a person can be remembered in this world, Broadway uses her unsettling premise to contemplate grief and loss, attempts to neatly categorize people and decisions as right or wrong, and the courage to push against norms in ways big and small. As Leora enters the adult world as an apprentice inker, Broadway elegantly depicts her discoveries and the way power can become manipulative, controlling, and deceptive. Ages 14–up.
In Saintstone, everyone's story is told on their skin. Inking is a noble profession. Lives are told through marks and preserved after death in skin books. These practices are linked to a tale of two sisters--one marked and good, one not marked (blank) and evil. Amy Shiels's soft, round tones and persistent pacing heighten the otherworldly feel of this audiobook, and her characterizations gradually unveil a spellbinding mystery. The first-person story of Leora, a young inker who is beginning to question the society in which she's been raised, also includes folktales of her community. Shiels navigates seamlessly through a sizable cast, bringing warmth and weight to each character and drawing listeners further into Leora's investigation of the town's true history. K.S.B. � AudioFile 2018, Portland, Maine
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