This week’s challenge was to read a fantasy novel. Enter
Anna-Marie McLemore. Reminiscent of those written by Alice Hoffman and Laura
Esquivel, her novel The Weight of
Feathers is a magical romance between the children of two feuding families.
The Corbeau and Paloma families have been rivals for as long as Lace can
remember. Lace Paloma is a performer in her family’s traveling mermaid show.
Cluck Corbeau makes the wings for the high climbing dance performances of his
family.
One night an accident at the chemical plant causes a searing
rain. Lace is saved from severe damage only because Cluck carries her to
safety.Her beauty damaged, Lace becomes an outcast. She finds refuge in Cluck’s family only by
leading everyone to believe she is a local instead of a Paloma.
As her
relationship with Cluck deepens, she discovers the extent of his scars and the
truth behind the generation-old family feud.
McLemore blends the magical realism of feathered humans and bloody
curses with the all too real problem of abusive families and deep-seated prejudices. Readers will be swept up in the spectacle and brought back down to
hard realities.
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