The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender Audiobook (Free)

Generations from the Roux family have learned this lesson the hard way. Foolish love is apparently the family birthright, actually, which casts an ominous fate for its latest progeny: twins Ava and Henry Lavender. Henry is certainly mute for a lot of his youthful lifestyle, and Ava – in all other ways a standard girl-is born with the wings of a bird. Within a quest to comprehend her peculiar disposition and an evergrowing desire to squeeze in with her peers, sixteen-year-old Ava delves into her family’s former and ventures into the wider globe, ill prepared for what she might discover and naive to the twisted motives of others. Others like the pious Nathaniel Sorrows, who mistakes Ava for an angel and whose obsession with her expands until the night of the summertime solstice celebration. That evening, the skies open up, rainfall and feathers fill up the air, and both Ava’s quest and her family’s saga build to a dark and heartbreaking crescendo. First-time writer Leslye Walton provides constructed a layered and haunting mythology of what this means to be given birth to with a heart that’s tragically, exquisitely individual.