02974cam a2200505 i 4500 1605565326 TxAuBib 20240924120000.0 200207s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020005502 9780062980786 hardcover 0062980785 hardcover 9780062980793 trade paperback 0062980793 trade paperback (OCoLC)1136965728 TxAuBib rda Maguire, Gregory, author. A wild winter swan : a novel / Gregory Maguire. First edition. New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2020] 230 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Following her brother's death and her mother's emotional breakdown, Laura now lives on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, in a lonely townhouse she shares with her old-world, strict, often querulous grandparents. But the arrangement may be temporary. The quiet, awkward teenager has been getting into trouble at home and has been expelled from her high school for throwing a record album at a popular girl who bullied her. When Christmas is over and the new year begins, Laura may find herself at boarding school in Montreal. Nearly unmoored from reality through her panic and submerged grief, Laura is startled when a handsome swan boy with only one wing lands on her roof. Hiding him from her ever-bickering grandparents, Laura tries to build the swan boy a wing so he can fly home. But the task is too difficult to accomplish herself. Little does Laura know that her struggle to find help for her new friend parallels that of her grandparents, who are desperate for a distant relative's financial aid to save the family store. As he explores themes of class, isolation, family, and the dangerous yearning to be saved by a power greater than ourselves, Gregory Maguire conjures a haunting, beautiful tale of magical realism that illuminates one young woman's heartbreak and hope as she begins the inevitable journey to adulthood."--Publisher. 20240924. Teenage girls Fiction. Grandparent and child Fiction. Italian American families Fiction. Life change events Fiction. Swans Fiction. Nineteen sixties Fiction. Teenagers Fiction. Italian Americans Fiction. Magic realism (Literature.) Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) Fiction. Adaptations. fast Bildungsromans. fast Fiction. fast Magic realist fiction. fast Bildungsromans. lcgft Magic realist fiction. lcgft Novels. lcgft TXHSP