Breaking Spirit Bridge | 
| Author: Ruth Perkinson
Publisher: Spinsters Ink Books
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Pages: 184
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Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.3 x 0.5
ISBN: 1883523958
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781883523954
ASIN: 1883523958
Publication Date: April 15, 2008
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Book Description
Fresh out of high school and on a full scholarship to play collegiate basketball at UVA, Piper Leigh Cliff returns to her childhood home in Virginia. Upon her arrival, Piper reconnects to a past she had willfully and willingly long forgotten. Demons still linger in her hometown. Most notably, her grandfather and his friend Clover, who is still fuming mad over an encounter with Piper six years earlier. Returning to roots that are dark, roots that are secret, and roots that lead to an uncertain future, Piper finds out the past is not the heaviest burden to carry. It is the mind she was born with: a daunting genius bearing down on her that threatens to take everything away, including her life. This time she's fighting a battle to hold on to the one thing she's always counted on: her mind.
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Intriguing, Daunting, Inspiring June 8, 2008
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I love this writer. Piper's Someday was an excellent book, and Breaking Spirit Bridge is a challenging one, but it is so worth the read.
Piper Cliff, the twelve-year-old heroine of Piper's Someday, returns to Virginia at age nineteen on a basketball scholarship. And then she loses her mind.
This is a moving and thought-provoking tale of an ascendence into madness, and a subsequent spiraling back to reality.
Piper's spirit breaks as she tries to cross so many bridges, too many, the bridge betwen her and her lost family, the one between her and her negligent, abusive grandfather, the bridge between this world and the next, where those spirits reside that she needs the most.
It is unsettling to be inside Piper's broken mind; uncomfortable.
It is also enlightening, as well as heartbreaking,to see this young person yearn and search for the place, the intersection, the bridge, that will lead her back to all she has lost, and back to herself.
But it is simply breathtaking to read this author's words. It takes real skill and real love for language to achieve this tone that persists throughout this wonderful book, to maintain that certain pitch. Perkinson is so sure-handed, so easy and free with her writing, that she never once sounds a false note in this, Piper's opera.
Breaking Spirit Bridge is a delight to read. This is one of those books that will be treasured, especially by those whose lives and loved ones have been touched by mental disease.
You wouldn't think that there is much humor in a novel with such a serious, sometimes frightening topic. But there is, and secondary chracters are drawn with so much skill and subtlety that the reader comes to know them and to count on them as much as Piper does.
This book is a rare treat, the perfect blend of craft and care. The author's heart and depth and skill just shine in every sentence.
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