It's that work down there, helping them blind men and boys to get hold of their souls again. He'd open up another room to you sometime and give you the key to unlock the door. 'I told you once that it didn't make no difference if God had closed the door of your eyes. 249 'Keith, do you remember?' Susan was still earnest and preoccupied. (Just a heads up, there is a scene involving a revolver and suicidal thoughts, which caught me off guard, so I would recommend for older teens/adults.) This book was really hard to get into for me, but after closing the pages on the last two chapters, getting to the touching and teary ending was all worth it. We read the version published by Jenny Phillips in 2018. Get where? Ah, that is where I hand you a copy and invite you to find out. Nothing in this book is easily gained and while the ending is satisfying it is so because of the work it takes the characters to get there. Glory! That woman and her malaprops and poetry! Hahaha! It was so much fun to read her and giggle as she spoke so earnestly. My favorite interactions were any with Susan.

My son appreciated how the story was unfolded through all the characters, sharing their hurts and worries, their joys and interpretations of situations. We traded it back and forth until we both finished it today, thoroughly satisfied. My teenage son read this first and then I picked it up while he was in the middle of it. More complex than Just David or Pollyanna, Dawn is the story of Keith Burton, his father Daniel, their employee Susan (who is one of the great unlikely heroines of literature) and the power of perseverance-no matter how faulty the attempts.

Eleanor porter author