As she learns that Hanna and her father came to the United States nine years earlier, and that in the last year, Hanna's father passed away, Rosalee notices the bloodstains on Hanna's clothes.
Hanna wants nothing more than her mother's approval and love.īut Rosalee is not pleased to find her daughter in her kitchen instead of in Finland. To Hanna, who did not resemble her Finnish relatives, Rosalee, who looks much like her, is beyond beautiful. Looking at my mother-‘for the first time ever-‘I wondered if it was because God was beautiful. My grandma Annikki once told me that anyone who looked on the face of God would instantly fall over dead. So, after finding the spare key and letting herself into Rosalee's house, Hanna follows her father's advice to lure Rosalee out of her bedroom with the scent of a grilled cheese sandwich. But the voice of Hanna's father, Joosef, warns Hanna not to wake her sleeping mother by knocking on her door in the middle of the night.
Hanna's mother, Rosalee Price, left Hanna with her father in Finland shortly after Hanna's birth, and Hanna has no memories of Rosalee. She's not only biracial and bicultural (half African American and half Finn), but also bipolar.Īs she approaches her mother's house, Hanna hallucinates her deceased father's voice coaching her on how to deal with her mother. The town of Portero isn't in any way normal, but then Hanna doesn't feel normal, either. Sixteen year old Hanna Jarvinen arrives in Portero, Texas to reunite with her mother, who isn't expecting her. For the first seven years of my life, we hadn't even lived on the same continent, and now she waited only a few houses away. I felt odd too, standing in the town where my mother lived.
The truck driver let me off on Lamartine, on the odd side of the street. I downloaded Bleeding Violet from the Sony store to my ebook reader, began to read, and found myself engaged almost immediately. The book sounded unusual and well-written, and perfect 10's are a rare event on the Book Smugglers' blog, so I thought I'd give it a try. Since the book's genre (YA with a paranormal flavor) is one I enjoy, I looked up Ana's review of Bleeding Violet. I was casually perusing the Book Smugglers' blog when I came across this midyear list of their favorite books of 2010 and saw that Ana had given your debut, Bleeding Violet a grade of perfect 10. Janine A Reviews African American / Contemporary / good characterization / Good-Dialogue / good-narration / interracial-romance / mothers and daughters / Texas / Violence / Young-Adult 16 Comments
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