![]() ![]() Yet Laurel is haunted by voices and memories from her past. Laurel’s new life is going well, with a new best friend, a place on the cheerleading squad and T Boom, co captain of the basketball team, for a boyfriend. ![]() Laurel Daneau has moved on to a new life, in a new town, but inside she’s still reeling from the loss of her beloved mother and grandmother after Hurricane Katrina washed away their home. It is a novel in which through hope, understanding and love, healing begins. This beautiful sequel to Jacqueline Woodson’s If You Come Softly explores the experiences of those left behind after tragedy. And Miah will watch over them, until he is sure each of those he loved is all right. They will feel Miah in the wind, see him in the light, hear him in their music. ![]() ![]() With the help of each other, the living will come together. How do we go on after losing someone we love? This is the question the living and the dead are asking. And there is Miah, watching all of this&150unable to let go. Now his mother has stopped trying, his friends are lost and Ellie doesn’t know how to move on. This was the ending.Īnd it was the beginning of grief for the many people who loved Miah. Even though Miah was black and Ellie was white, they made sense together. Over a world of first kisses and hands touching and someone you’re falling in love with. And it lifts you up over a world of sadness and anger and fear. You are so light you move with the wind and the snow… ![]()
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