Aria: A Novel Binding:Paperback seems to have the life

seems to have the life Katie increasingly longs for

shares an inventive and emotional novel about storytelling and her homeland--the Dominican Republic--that Kirkus Reviews calls a "rich and moving saga" and Shelf Awareness calls "a lyrical thought-provoking meditation on truth

But when her father's bakery has an influx of new customers

the annoyingly handsome Ben Nolan

a timeless illustrated story about connection and compromise brought to life with imagination

Aria: A Novel Binding:Paperback seems to have the lifeAn extraordinary, cinematic saga of rags to riches to revolution that follows an orphan girl coming of age in Iran at a time of dramatic upheaval It is the 1950s in a restless Iran, a country rich in oil but deeply divided by class and religion. The government is unpopular and corrupt and under foreign sway. One night, an illiterate army driver hears the pitiful cry of a baby abandoned in an alley and menaced by ravenous wild dogs. He snatches up the