A review by ccallan
Before Women Had Wings by Connie May Fowler

4.0

This was a beautiful book, about growing up, difficult families, and nurturing dreams. I appreciated the prose, and the child's perspective of some dubious adult behavior. My one gripe about this perspective is that when you choose to use a child as first person narrator, then the insights and comments from that narrator need to be those of a child. When the story starts out the narrator is six, and it then stretches over a couple more years after that. Yet the insights we get -- as beautiful and profound as they are -- do not sound plausible coming out of a kid's mouth. It made for some awkward moments that bounced me out of the glow the story creates.