Oskar is startled to discover Evie in his family’s orchard, and even more surprised to see himself on her canvas. Too ashamed to reveal his stutter, he remains silent as Evie returns day after day to paint, spilling confessions she wouldn’t even tell her priest.
As Evie’s life back home unravels, Oskar wants to comfort her with words, but he knows he’s waited too long, so he uses music instead. But when it all comes to the surface, he knows that if Evie can’t forgive him for lying, he may never forgive himself for surviving.
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Rating: ★★★★★
My Review: The setting to this one was amazing. I couldn't put it down and I loved the characters and the story. I loved the verse and prose and it was just so beautiful!! It's a story that will rip out your heart but you fall in love with it all the same.
Go Into This One Knowing: Stutter, Story in Prose/Verse
THE LANGUAGE OF CHERRIES is unlike anything I've ever read. I immediately fell in love with the premise, the characters, and the world. Richly textured with a mixture of crisp prose and poignant verse, it s the kind of book you read in one sitting, and then you read it again to savor. A brilliant gem of a book about how the heart needs no translator. I adore this book! --Elly Blake, New York Times bestselling author of the Frostblood Saga (Little, Brown)
THE LANGUAGE OF CHERRIES is a lush, heady, magical book, much like first love itself. Evie and Oskar are unforgettable characters with passions and desires who, despite their initial language barrier, deeply understand and support each other. The vibrant writing and unique Icelandic setting, combined with an inventive structure, make this book a YA standout reminiscent of Anna-Marie McLemore and Sarah Addison Allen. --Rachel Lynn Solomon, author of You ll Miss Me When I m Gone (S&S, 2018) and Our Year of Maybe (S&S, 2019)
Jennifer Hawkins s debut is a brilliant and unique take on the timeless YA themes of communication, empathy, and first love and all of their attendant and perennial obstacles. Evie and Oskar s relationship is spun in gorgeous, unexpected lyricism; even the setting (friendless and freezing and diametrically opposed to Evie s Miami home) infuses the novel with a surreal and mythic quality: every detail weighs on her discovery of Oskar s secret. THE LANGUAGE OF CHERRIES is impossible to forget; for me, it reads like the classic it deserves to be. --Daniel Ehrenhaft, author of Ten Things To Do Before I Die (Delacorte, 2004) and the Edgar Award-winning Trust Falls (HarperCollins, 2002)
THE LANGUAGE OF CHERRIES is a lush, heady, magical book, much like first love itself. Evie and Oskar are unforgettable characters with passions and desires who, despite their initial language barrier, deeply understand and support each other. The vibrant writing and unique Icelandic setting, combined with an inventive structure, make this book a YA standout reminiscent of Anna-Marie McLemore and Sarah Addison Allen. --Rachel Lynn Solomon, author of You ll Miss Me When I m Gone (S&S, 2018) and Our Year of Maybe (S&S, 2019)
Jennifer Hawkins s debut is a brilliant and unique take on the timeless YA themes of communication, empathy, and first love and all of their attendant and perennial obstacles. Evie and Oskar s relationship is spun in gorgeous, unexpected lyricism; even the setting (friendless and freezing and diametrically opposed to Evie s Miami home) infuses the novel with a surreal and mythic quality: every detail weighs on her discovery of Oskar s secret. THE LANGUAGE OF CHERRIES is impossible to forget; for me, it reads like the classic it deserves to be. --Daniel Ehrenhaft, author of Ten Things To Do Before I Die (Delacorte, 2004) and the Edgar Award-winning Trust Falls (HarperCollins, 2002)
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