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A review by calistareads
Small in the City by Sydney Smith
5.0
This is practically a wordless book. I love the artwork; it's gritty and rough and towering and it brings up feelings of being Small in New York. It's a great bit of art. There is beauty in the harsh lines.
A girl is narrating the story for us telling us it's okay to feel small in the city, but we will make it. She gives tips on how best to survive the big city and how she does it. The girl is on the bus by herself and walking around the town by herself. Man, as a parent, I would think you have to have so much faith that your kid is going to be okay in such a big place. That would be tough knowing all that can happen.
Winter plays a big part in the story and the tone is sort of numb and quiet. There is the noise of the city in the background, but there is a stillness and quiet that the girl exudes.
I'm going to throw up a spoiler here.
Spoiler:
I have to talk about the ending. We see the girl putting up cat posters. I assumed she was narrating to us, but in the end we find out that she is narrating to her lost cat, hoping she will find her way home and all the safe places she showed the cat was to help her out in the world. It's a beautiful and touching ending. It's an amazing book and I didn't even know I was reading a mystery. This was such a wonderful surprise. Man, it's good.
A girl is narrating the story for us telling us it's okay to feel small in the city, but we will make it. She gives tips on how best to survive the big city and how she does it. The girl is on the bus by herself and walking around the town by herself. Man, as a parent, I would think you have to have so much faith that your kid is going to be okay in such a big place. That would be tough knowing all that can happen.
Winter plays a big part in the story and the tone is sort of numb and quiet. There is the noise of the city in the background, but there is a stillness and quiet that the girl exudes.
I'm going to throw up a spoiler here.
Spoiler:
I have to talk about the ending. We see the girl putting up cat posters. I assumed she was narrating to us, but in the end we find out that she is narrating to her lost cat, hoping she will find her way home and all the safe places she showed the cat was to help her out in the world. It's a beautiful and touching ending. It's an amazing book and I didn't even know I was reading a mystery. This was such a wonderful surprise. Man, it's good.