I enjoyed In the Night of Memory by Linda LeGarde Grover. The writing pulled me in from the beginning. One cannot help but hope for happiness for the two little girls, Rainfall Dawn (Rainy) and Azure Sky (Azure)! I was found so many tragedies for these children heartbreaking, but wondering what would finally happen for them kept me reading.
There is not any fairy-tale ending here about their mother or even her true love, but it is a story of survival and resilience. I found the memory of Loretta dancing with the Northern Lights that spans the girls' memories throughout the book a "true" memory as this is how we remember those we've loved and the evolution of that memory is also true.
I had some mixed feelings about some of the revelations at the very end of the book, wondering if those could have been brought in earlier. However, I think the author was showing how even these most difficult of memories can finally be faced (and therefore to some degree at least, resolved) by Azure.
There is not any fairy-tale ending here about their mother or even her true love, but it is a story of survival and resilience. I found the memory of Loretta dancing with the Northern Lights that spans the girls' memories throughout the book a "true" memory as this is how we remember those we've loved and the evolution of that memory is also true.
I had some mixed feelings about some of the revelations at the very end of the book, wondering if those could have been brought in earlier. However, I think the author was showing how even these most difficult of memories can finally be faced (and therefore to some degree at least, resolved) by Azure.