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    First Light

    Written by Rebecca Stead

    Narrated by David Ackroyd and Coleen Marlo

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    About this audiobook

    PETER IS THRILLED to leave New York City to accompany his parents on an expedition to Greenland to study global warming. There he has visions of things that should be too far away for him to see.

    Generations ago, the people of Thea's community were hunted for possessing unusual abilities, so they fled beneath the ice. Thea needs help that only Peter can give. Their meeting reveals secrets of both their pasts, and changes the future for them both forever.


    From the Trade Paperback edition.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJan 26, 2010
    ISBN9780307710666
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    First Light
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    Rebecca Stead

    Rebecca Stead ("Plan B") went to the kind of elementary school where a person could sit on a windowsill or even under a table to read a book, and no one told you to come out and be serious. After trying to be serious as a lawyer for a while, she decided to be a full-time writer. Her book When You Reach Me was awarded the Newbery Medal in 2010 and was a New York Times bestseller. She lives in New York City with her family. 

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    • 4/5
      The first third of First Light kind of rambles along, then turns into a quietly moving (backward) tale of the woven life of a brother and sister.For me, the problem is that I don't deeply care about or feel close to any of the characters except young Noah:passive inscrutable Laurie? goofy self-centered pretentious Simon? settling cheater Hugh?compromising and unhappy Dorsey?Not a great selection - also the book bows to being yet another modern (1987) novel blemishedby the now requisite (We Are Not Ourselves - 2014) indelible horrible animal death or cruelty.It would be good if that would go the way of white clapboard houses...
    • 4/5
      I thought Feast of Love was a wonderful story whose characters stayed with me for a long time. First Light I found in a wharehouse bookstore and it's meager price tag made me jump at the chance to read more by this author. This was a different kind of story, an almost experiment where a relationship is traced backward-- right to birth. As interesting as that was, all the common conventions of novel reading were throwned out the window. the relationship that we see at the start of the novel has to be concluded to be a result of the preceding chapters. --Like I said, interesting but now quite satisfying.
    • 5/5
      A revelation, deeply touching. Great writing, construction, excellent pacing and characterizations. A top shelf favorite, the first in my Charles Baxter addiction.
    • 3/5
      An interesting novel. I decided to read it based on a recommendation from someone in an online book group. They said it was remarkably well written, especially in how he developed his characters. It was pretty good in that sense, but throughout most of the book I found the characters to be less than believable.

      They didn't mention the novel's central device, though, which is that it's written in reverse. It begins at the death of the main character (Hugh), and moves backwards in time, chapter by chapter, until he is a toddler at the birth of his sister (Dorsey). This is tied pretty closely with the Big Bang/Big Crunch theory of the universe (Dorsey is an astrophysicist), and in that sense it works quite well. That, actually, became the most interesting aspect of the novel for me.

      As I said, the characters themselves were often not that believable. But there was something compelling about them. Their relationships were interesting at times, and it was interesting to speculate on what would "happen next"—that is, on what had happened to bring them to this point. But I have such a bad memory that I ended up forgetting details I wanted to remember, which would probably have made it a much more interesting book for me.