Poignant and uplifting, the novel shows how the three newly acquainted siblings bond and feel in their respective home lives. It's a realistic, contemporary novel about three adopted or foster-parented teens who discover that they're half-siblings and ultimately decide to look for their biological mother. The truth, it turns out, can't always be covered over with flowers.Parents need to know that Robin Benway's Far from the Tree is the 2017 National Book Award winner for Young People's Literature. And speaking of nature, McLemore uses sensuous descriptive language to convey it in all its dazzling, terrifying glory. Combining romantic, old-world storytelling and a contemporary sensibility, "Wild Beauty" incorporates ideas on class, race and sexual orientation as naturally as vines curl through a trellis. This sumptuous book-length original fairy tale is forged, as were Anna-Marie McLemore's two previous young-adult novels, in the Latin American literary tradition of magical realism. It's a convergence of events that forces Estrella to confront disturbing aspects of her heritage and re-examine everything she thinks she knows. Then a mysterious boy rises from beneath the ground a stranger arrives with underhanded plans and Bay Briar, the girl whom the cousins all not-so-secretly love, disappears. Estrella has always viewed La Pradera as a haven - her ancestors were persecuted for witchcraft - and the Briars, the family that owns the land, as her protectors.
Estrella, her four cousins, their mothers and grandmothers must use their inherited magic powers to coax lush gardens from soil that would otherwise remain barren, and if they try to escape, to live somewhere else, the earth will reclaim them. For generations, La Pradera estate has provided refuge for the women of the Nomeolvides family, but at a steep price.
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