The Broken Bridge

The Broken Bridge

Over the course of a long summer in Wales, sixteen-year-old Ginny, the mixed-race, artist daughter of an English father and a Haitian mother, learns that she has a half-brother from her father's earlier marriage, and that her own mother may still be alive.
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Highlights

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“Maybe art itself was a kind of voodoo, possessing you, giving you supernatural power, letting you see in the dark.”

~ Ginny

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“When you try to be friendly you expose yourself to so many embarrassments.”

~ Ginny

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“Even better than knowing who you were was knowing what you had to do.”

~ Ginny

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““You can’t go back,” Stuart said. “You can only go forward. You can’t forget, either. You have to use everything you know.””

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“The lady was singing, and the song thrilled through the clouds and the sheets and filled the immense beaming sky, and Ginny felt that she was so light that she, too, could swing up and be blown along in the wild blue splendor;”

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“Free to do anything. Like me. I don’t know where I belong, so I’m free. No one’s got a hold on me.”

~ Andy

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“And though she thought she was pretty and Dad told her she was pretty and though her friends reassured her too, nevertheless, boys … well, they were cowards anyway.” ~ Ginny