Orla's Canvas, by Mary Donnarumma Sharnick
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Narrated by eleven-year-old Orla Gwen Gleason, Orla's Canvas opens on Easter Sunday, in St. Suplice, Louisiana, a "misspelled town" north of New Orleans, and traces Orla's dawning realization that all is not as it seems in her personal life or in the life of her community. The death of St. Suplice's doyenne, Mrs. Bellefleur Dubois Castleberry, for whom Orla's mother keeps house, reveals Orla's true paternity, shatters her trust in her beloved mother, and exposes her to the harsh realities of class and race in the Civil Rights-era South. When the Klan learns of Mrs. Castleberry's collaboration with the local Negro minister and Archbishop Rummel to integrate the parochial school, violence fractures St. Suplice's vulnerable stability. The brutality Orla witnesses at summer's end awakens her to life's tenuous fragility. Like the South in which she lives, she suffers the turbulence of changing times. Smart, resilient, and fiercely determined to make sense of her pain, Orla paints chaos into beauty, documenting both horror and grace, discovering herself at last through her art. "Taking as her canvas the Civil Rights era in Louisiana, Mary Donnarumma Sharnick tells the affecting story of Orla, a remarkable young heroine with the soul of an artist. The novel is both a gripping look into a historic moment in American culture and a poignant coming-of-age story readers won't forget." - Chantel Acevedo, author of The Distant Marvels
Orla's Canvas, by Mary Donnarumma Sharnick- Amazon Sales Rank: #1366425 in Books
- Published on: 2015-10-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.02" h x .58" w x 5.98" l, .83 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 278 pages
Review "Orla's Canvas is a lyrical, poignant story of a young talented girl coming of age in the dawning Civil Rights era in the South. Orla's art is her window on the world, a world she valiantly struggles to make sense of. More than once, I thought of another southern girl, this one named Scout. For good reason; Orla's Canvas is an American classic for our times." James R. Benn, author of the acclaimed Billy Boyle Series Refusing her characters, and her readers, the option of keeping the past locked in the past, Sharnick instead suggests that yesterday's story bleeds into and informs today's, and her novel would make an excellent addition to a classroom study of the period, not in place of nonfiction texts, but as a way for high school students to begin to explore the ways in which historical events shaped and continue to shape our senses of self. -- Emma Paine, MLIS Upper School Librarian and Archivist Chase Collegiate School"Fiction doesn't get much more sensual than this. Mary Donnarumma Sharnick has given us a stylish and affecting portrait of a young artist--and a still-young country--coming of age together." Louis Bayard, author of Roosevelt's Beast
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. A 20th century female Huck Finn! By Marina J. Neary Imagine elements of Mark Twain, William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor distilled and harmoniously concocted in a highly literary and authentic modern masterpiece. Orla's Canvas is a novel that looks like a painting and tastes like a Southern feast with Irish, French and African flavors mixing together. The protagonist Orla Gleason is a painstakingly observant yet refreshingly non-judgmental prepubescent Southern girl of Irish extraction who is trying to find her voice in the volatile political climate. Nothing escapes her senses, no smell, sight or sound. She's almost a creature without skin, hyper in tune with the elements. Some people's nervous systems are wired like that. They pick up on subtlest of stimuli that go over most people's heads. Orla can tell you the flavor of every ice-cream cone she's had, the texture of the floorboards, the temperature of the water in the river on any given day. Paired with photographic memory, such intense sensitivity can lead to mental instability - unless the person is given an outlet for channeling those sensory impressions. For Orla Gleason it becomes art. I would not hesitate to call her a 20th century female Huck Finn.Mary Sharnick does understand violence and brutality, and I applaud her skill for depicting them in a very raw, nonchalant manner without gratuitous editorial melodrama. I am familiar with the author's two previous novels set in Venice during the 17th and 15th centuries respectively. Orla's Canvas is very different from the point of view of setting and focus, but if you read Sharnick's previous novels, you will see how she continues to capitalize on her talent for depicting tragedy and the subsequent redemption using bold, precise strokes.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. I loved this story By Barbara I loved this story. Sharnick's words draw us into the canvas that is her novel. She creates truly memorable lines and images as the story of this remarkable young girl reveals itself. I could not put it down.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. My love of southern fiction set in the past By C. A. CIULLO My love of southern fiction set in the past, is what drew me into Orla's Canvas. I found myself soaking into the story and its characters. This book takes place in the midst of the civil rights movement and its a great representation of the time. Viewing the world through Orla's eyes...her susceptibility to the emotions of the people that surround her life, the crushing blow upon learning the truth in her mother's life..all pour into Orla's art. It guides her to make sense of it all. It is her salvation and sanctuary. Mary Sharnick's storytelling shines!
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