CLAIRE ANGE
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*** literary fiction for the mid-teen and up.
The great composer Ludwig van Beethoven once said, "Music is the mediator between the spiritual and sensual life". One can only wonder if author, M.A. Kirkwood had this in mind in creating Claire Ange. Here we have a spirit entity, a former human, if you will, who stumbles upon this story pertaining to the world of musical composer-aspirant, 17-year old Claire. Actually, the timing couldn't be better for we meet Claire just as she's kicked out of the house by her wicked, jealous, mother— who has bigger plans as she selfishly covets the social elite scene in upper crust New Orleans society.
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The spirit entity—an unintended emcee of this narrative— amusingly gives us the rundown on life in the spirit world, his wish to break the spell of forgetfulness in knowing who he was when he was last human, all the while, newly homeless Claire has nary an idea of his protective presence.Perhaps the clincher is that this spirit guest— though very much aware of Claire— has no idea that she unwittingly holds the key to unlocking his own mystery.
Hardly a victim, Claire turns obstacles into opportunity with humor and deftness, as she's almost always advised by her street-wise, best-bud, Darva Jean — a Sancho Panza to Claire's Don Quixote. Add the array of hilarious characters, including a gambling nun who nurtures the girl's spirit, a math professor-drag queen who gives Claire her first break as a working musician, and you have a hard book to put down.
Ultimately, music becomes the conduit by which these two opposite characters find themselves and in a most unexpected way.Both are released from their disparate spells of enchantment—one, from a pernicious, jealous mother, now landing on the path of her own true destiny as a musician, and another, whose spell of an amnesia of sorts comes to full realization of noble deeds done, therefore, releasing this honorable being back into his spirit-home, and perhaps, onward to the music of the spheres, making this narrative, truly, a faery tale like no other.
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