Fishlight: A Dream of ChildhoodTold in the voice of a five-year-old girl who sees more than she understands, this novel chronicles her passage through sickness, the separation of her parents, and a maze of secret lives, all with the richness of her budding imagination. |
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125th Street anymore asked my father asleep Aunt Gertrude baby bottle back inside bottle cake box cats Cecile Pineda chair Charles Babbage Christmas chrysa chrysalis cold color corridor courtyard crazy crying dark dogs doll dotted swiss dress dumbwaiter eggs elevator everything everywhere eyes father's angel Fishlight floor galoshes Gertrude Gibby hair hand hear Hermine House of Wax ice skating inside his room James Watt Kepke kitchen laughing legs light living room look mama mother mouth never night noise Nostradamus O-Mee-Oh Panda pink pins play with Walter Pozo Pozo's book pulled purple pushed scared screaming and screaming shiny shoes shook shouted shut sitting slammed smelled Snow White snowflakes sometimes stairs standing started stay stop street stuck sucked sugar supposed talk teeth tell things threw tiny tiptoe told took trying turned wait watch whispering window wished