Icy Sparks

I hesitated a minute or two, to tell you about this book that I just finished. Wow! It was an amazing story of a young girl who suffered from a troubling affliction that affected her whole life. Besides the fact that she was left an orphan, raised by her grandparents and lived in Appalachia where people have a hard time understanding or accepting "different". It had some rough spots where her thoughts and actions were anything but sweet or kind. But it also was the amazing story of how Icy overcomes and eventually has a happy life.

Author Loyal Jones describes it like this: "Icy Sparks is a work of imagination, about being different in a world where difference brings separation and pain. Icy, in 1950's Appalachia, finds community with others who also don't fit in and acquires an outlook that is wise, serious, and yet comic."

If you like a challenge, something to stretch your thinking, go for it!