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The Geranium Window

In the fictional village of Rocky Point, Cape Breton, just after WWII, the Briar family keeps a secret. Locked in his room, Joseph Briar, a child with visible and non- visible disabilities, is hidden from the community. And what Alfie Johns discovers through Joseph’s window will lead him to love and a future, framing beauty in photographs. Harkening back to John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men and Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden, Beatrice MacNeil reveals the destructive power of shame and the redemptive power of art.

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The Geranium Window, by Beatrice MacNeil was the first book I read as a Digitally Lit youth ambassador.
Set in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, this book explores many topics that involve many intriguing and well developed characters. After WW2, the Briar family is keeping a secret, a big secret. Inside their home, behind a window decorated with geraniums, sits a young child with both visible and non visible disabilities, locked away from the world. The novel follows the life of Alfie Johns after he discovers the child. His life of love, and his future in art.
The Geranium Window is a uniquely crafted novel that demonstrates the raw challenges in life, the destructive power of shame, and the redemptive impact of art.
With every growing page you want learn more about the Briar family, and Alfie Johns. This novel is eye opening in more ways than one.

I recommend this book.

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