FREE: Icy Sparks - Gwyn Hyman Rubio (Oprah's Book Club Edition)

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Rural Kentucky in the 1950's is not an easy place to grow up, and it's especially hard ten-year-old Icy Sparks, an orphan who lives with her grandparents. Life becomes even more diffic when violent tics and uncontrollable cursing begins-- symptoms brought on by a troubling affliction that goes undiagnosed until her adulthood. Icy's adolescence is marred by the humiliation of her illness, and its all-too-visible signs are the source of the endless mystery and hilarity as everyone around her offers an opinion about what's troubling the girl. Eventually, Icy finds solace in the company of Miss Emily, an obese woman who knows what it's like to be an outcast in this tightly knit commmunity. Narrated by the now-grown Icy, this novel shmmers with warmth and humor as it recounts a young girl's painful and poignant journey to womanhood-- and the many lives she touches and enriches along the way.