Destiny, Rewritten
Kathryn Fitzmaurice
Releases: 2.19.13
Katherine Tegen Books
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What if you had believed that your entire destiny had
been written for you, but you soon realized that you did not follow its
outline? Some gifts that are given can be like obstacles holding you back in
life, or at least the life you feel is out there just waiting for you if only
you knew where to look. When Isabella Davis feels that there is a sign in a
bookstore while pregnant with her unborn daughter, she may never realize the implication
of desiring her daughter to be a renowned poet and that in naming her after
Emily Dickinson could become a noose around a budding new talent.
Weaving through different books of literature and
exploring poetry, Destiny Rewritten
crosses through works to turn into something entirely its own. Emily Davis is
the young heroine portrayed in the story as trying to desperately find pieces
of herself to establish her destiny. The destiny that her mother saw for Emily
may not be the destiny that fits on her future though, as Emily struggles to
find out secrets from her past which unravel and entire host of events that
will delight readers.
From tree sitting to rare book collections, Emily Davis
is searching through Emily Dickinson to find the secret of her missing father.
It is not as if he went missing, more as that her mother misplaced him in her
passion for life. Isabella Davis fled from the East Coast to Berkley, CA and in
finding that she was pregnant after a relationship from the East has found that
leaving hints in poetry that she writes for Hallmark cards may not be enough to
find her missing love and unknowing father. Left to the belief in fate and
destiny may not be enough for Emily Davis as she tries to cope with losing a
book containing hidden information on the identity of her father that was
written in the margins of her baby book, a first edition of The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Emily Elizabeth Davis is a strong, determined heroine who
will delight readers of any age. With a cunning determination in everything
from collecting all the special rings in Cheerios boxes, to coloring the water
cycle and struggling through poetry to discovering a new passion in life Emily
Davis reaches out to women and girls with her humor and wit. Through letters to
romance writer Danielle Steel we see a calculating side of Emily Davis that is
trying to come to terms with her version of reality that is backing up into the
ideas of her mother. For Emily destiny is not something written in stone, but
malleable as clay and she intends to determine her own fate and wrestle with
the consequences of her actions in her search for her own truth.
What author Kathyrn Fitzmaurice brings to readers is a
young woman in search of her own destiny and not something that someone thinks
may be best for her. Through many daring determinations, Emily Davis changes
her life quite possible for the better as her quest to uncover the identity of
her father changes the way she may look to her future forever. Written
beautifully with engaging and fun dialog, Destiny
Rewritten will capture audiences of all ages as they follow Emily Elizabeth
Davis unravel her past and come to terms with her future.
Blurb From The Publisher:
Des·tin·y: |destinē/(noun) The hidden power believed to control what will happen in the future; fate.
Eleven-year-old Emily Elizabeth Davis has been told for her entire life that her destiny is to become a poet, just like her famous namesake, Emily Dickinson. But Emily doesn’t even really like poetry, and she has a secret career ambition that she suspects her English-professor mother will frown on. Then a seeming tragedy strikes: just after discovering that it contains an important family secret, she accidentally loses the special copy of Emily Dickinson’s poetry that was given to her at birth. As Emily and her friends search for the lost book in used bookstores and thrift shops all across town, Emily’s understanding of destiny begins to unravel and then rewrite itself in a marvelous new way.
In her third novel, Kathryn Fitzmaurice again weaves a richly textured and delightful story about unexpected connections, about the ways that friends can help us see ourselves for who we truly are, and about the most perfect kinds of happy endings: those that happen just on time.
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