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A review by jmooremyers
The Underneath by Kathi Appelt
4.0
favorite passages:
"Grandmother, who had spent a thousand years in a jar, had finally chosen love. She had seen it, pure and simple and clean, seen it in the small beings of two gray cats and an old dog. Love in all its complexity and honor made a circle around them all. She had interfered with love before and caused only sorrow. That, she knew, was the price. this time, she did what she could to help it along." (p 308)
"For trees, stories never end, they simply fold one into another. When one begins to close, another begins to open, so that none are ever finished, not really." (p 310)
"Write what you think you can't." (from acknowledgements)
"Grandmother, who had spent a thousand years in a jar, had finally chosen love. She had seen it, pure and simple and clean, seen it in the small beings of two gray cats and an old dog. Love in all its complexity and honor made a circle around them all. She had interfered with love before and caused only sorrow. That, she knew, was the price. this time, she did what she could to help it along." (p 308)
"For trees, stories never end, they simply fold one into another. When one begins to close, another begins to open, so that none are ever finished, not really." (p 310)
"Write what you think you can't." (from acknowledgements)