· A Northern Light is a beautiful coming of age story written by a gifted writer, Jennifer Donnelly. This is the story of Mattie Gokey, girl who's living in a rural area in She is struggling with helping her father run a farm and raise her younger siblings as all the responsibility falls on her/5. The Story. It is and Mattie Gokey is trying to learn how to stand up like a man — even though she’s a sixteen-year-old girl. At her summer job at a resort on Big Moose Lake in the Adirondack mountains, she will earn enough money to make something of her life. · A Gathering Light by Jennifer Donnelly. Set in , A Gathering Light (titled A Northern Light in the US) is the story of sixteen-year-old Mattie Gokey, the oldest daughter of a farmer from upstate New York.
A Gathering Light Synopsis. When mattie Gokey is given a bundle of letters to burn she fully intends to execute the wishes of the giver, Grace Brown. When Grace Brown is found drowned the next day in Big Moose Lake, Mattie finds that it is not as easy to burn those letters as she had thought. About Jennifer Donnelly. Jennifer Donnelly lives. A Gathering Light is a novel written by Jennifer Donnelly. She has written three novels, namely A Gathering Light, The Tea Rose, The Winter Rose, and Humble Pie, a picture book for children. She grew up in New York State and attended the University of Rochester. At present, Jennifer lives in Tivoli, New York. Industry Reviews 'The wonderfully confident debut by Jennifer Donnelly.' Lindsay Fraser, Sunday Herald 'A GATHERING LIGHT is a remarkable debut, a book that sweeps across the genre boundaries of murder, mystery, romance, and historical fiction - resulting in an original novel that is both gripping and touching.'.
In fact, it is her well-roundedness that makes her so ideal for Donnelly to use as a sounding board for a number of discussions on topics including childbirth, marriage, racism, adultery, and poverty. And so, while Mattie might be just a child herself and while the book is a pleasantly easy read, this is anything but a cheery child’s story. In short, A Gathering Light was far better than I was expecting it to be and I would wholeheartedly recommend Jennifer Donnelly's book to anyone who. A Northern Light, or A Gathering Light in the U.K., is an American historical novel for young adults, written by Jennifer Donnelly and published by Harcourt in The story is known as Realistic Fiction because of the untrue life story of Mattie Gokey, the real death of Grace Brown, and the events that could take place in the s. A Northern Light is a beautiful coming of age story written by a gifted writer, Jennifer Donnelly. This is the story of Mattie Gokey, girl who's living in a rural area in She is struggling with helping her father run a farm and raise her younger siblings as all the responsibility falls on her.
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