The Wide Starlight is a YA Magical Realism novel, weaving together the story of a sixteen-year-old girl coping with the grief over her missing mother with Norwegian fairy tales. Until she finds the note written in mother's elegant scrawl: Find me where I left you. Her mother's gone again, and Eli's devastated. It's all too much, too fast, and Eli pushes her mother away, not expecting her to disappear as abruptly as she appeared. But when magical, dangerous things start happening-narwhals appearing in Cape Cod Bay, meteorites landing in the yard by the hundreds, three shadowy fairytale princesses whispering ominous messages-the secrets start to become more like lies. Eli knows no one will believe them, so she keeps it all a secret. Her mother arrives with a hazy story of where she's been all this time. When Eli discovers the Northern Lights will be visible for one night on the Cape, she hatches a plan to use the lights to contact her missing mother. Years later, Eli is living with her dad on Cape Cod. Eli was there that night on the remote glacier in Svalbard, when her mother whistled, then vanished. Sixteen-year-old Eline Davis knows it's true because it happened to her mother. A novel that follows sixteen-year-old Eli as she tries to remember what truly happened the night her mother disappeared off a glacier in Norway under the Northern Lights.Īccording to Arctic legend, if you whistle at the Northern Lights, they'll swoop down and carry you off forever.
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