![]() ![]() Despite the narrator's candid, affecting reactions, readers may find the storytelling more puzzling than comforting. ![]() And they took Daddy with them." Felstead's ( Big Wolf and Little Wolf) collage art, befitting the narrative voice, mimics a child's crayon drawings. The flamingos disappear in a blizzard and the girl concludes that they went "back to Florida for the winter. When her father's friends visit after his death, each brings a plastic pink flamingo, and the girl and her mother eventually sprinkle his ashes around them. I did everything for him that Mamma did when we were at home." Back at home, the girl and her parents talk about the cancer her mother says the father will die. Flamingos know that Florida is the best place to be in winter." The tale takes a poignant turn when her father goes "to the hospital for therapy"-offering the first hint of his illness-and she "held a cold cloth on his forehead afterward because he felt so bad. The girl reports a somewhat inane conversation about flamingos, who "wouldn't really want to fly away. Sirena Paperback Januby Donna Jo Napoli (Author) 201 ratings 3.8 on Goodreads 5,910 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 5.99 Read with Our Free App Hardcover 70.00 21 Used from 1.69 3 New from 67.91 1 Collectible from 150.00 Paperback 841.95 1 Used from 841. Told in the ingenuous voice of a girl who loses her father to cancer, this awkward story begins with a meandering account of a trip the youngster and her dad take to his childhood home in Florida. ![]()
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