Whistling Past the Graveyard by Susan Crandall

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OMG! I loved this book!  Little nine-year-old Starla won my heart. She’s compassionate and witty, and delivers a narration that snaps, crackles, and pops.  In 1963 Starla decides to run away from home to find her mother in Nashville and avoid being sent to a reform school. On the road, a kind black woman, who has a white baby in her truck, pulls over to offer Starla a lift. That’s the beginning of a hair-raising, life-changing adventure where they bond and save each other. I couldn’t put this book down. 

One of the blurbs on the cover calls the book “wise, funny, tender…destined to become a classic.” I wholeheartedly agree. Starla is as spirited and memorable as Anne of Green Gables, Pippi Longstocking, or Addie Pray of “Paper Moon.”  And oh, how I loved Eula, too—such a loving and gentle soul. Both of them snuggled in my heart.💛🧡

 

Here are some of the snappy quotes from Starla:

 

“I went back to working on the window, but the dang thing was going to be stuck till the devil served popsicles.”

 

“I expected a man just as old and run-down as this place and the dog. But a tall skinny teenager with a giant Adam's apple and a good crop of pimples came out.”

 

“Well, crap on a cracker.”

 

“I sat there in that chair with the sharp pieces of my heart falling down and cutting my gut…”



Don't miss this feel-good book!💥


Happy Reading!

Annette


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