The Blossom and the Firefly by Sherri L Smith Contemporary Fiction Highly spirited Anne Shirley charms

Highly spirited Anne Shirley charms her way into the Cuthberts' affection with her vivid imagination and constant chatter

The Saturday Book was an annual miscellany

unearthly power – an aptitude for the nearly-mythical art of shamanism

a Philadelphia police officer

a successful New York writer who finally returns

The Blossom and the Firefly by Sherri L Smith Contemporary Fiction Highly spirited Anne Shirley charmsJapan 1945. Taro is a talented violinist and a kamikaze pilot in the days before his first and only mission. He believes he is ready to die for his country . . . until he meets Hana. Hana hasn't been the same since the day she was buried alive in a collapsed trench during a bomb raid. She wonders if it would have been better to have died that day . . . until she meets Taro. A song will bring them together. The war will tear them apart. Is it possible