A review by connie_rachelle
Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns

5.0

There are few books that can evoke such a deep sense of time and place and such an intimate portrayal of the characters. This is one such. We encounter the tiny town of Cold Sassy and its inhabitants through the eyes of fourteen year old Will Tweedy. The absolute art of this is how Will gradually comes to see the adults in his world as complex individuals rather than the constructs of his childhood. Olive Burns does a masterful job of taking us back to that bittersweet time of life when we leave the safe predictability of childhood for the more precarious promise of the future. It’s a book about change—the grieving for what was and the excitement of what will come.