{"id":2076,"date":"2013-10-28T11:20:11","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T11:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=2076"},"modified":"2015-03-31T00:09:37","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T00:09:37","slug":"the-lucy-variations-by-sara-zarr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=2076","title":{"rendered":"The Lucy Variations by Sara Zarr"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Let me just start off by saying that I can\u2019t imagine not loving anything written by Sara Zarr.\u00a0 All of her stories [see also Story of a Girl<\/em>, Sweethearts<\/em>, and How to Save a Life<\/em>] are just so compelling, and her characters so realistic that I become very quickly attached.\u00a0 Finishing one of her books always makes me feel like a friend moved away; very bitter-sweet. One of the reasons I thought this particular book was so great is because it was still completely accessible even though I don\u2019t know a ton about classical music or playing piano [so you shouldn’t let that stand in your way if you’re not well versed either].<\/p>\n

In this story, we meet Lucy Beck-Moreau \u2014 musical prodigy and former concert pianist.\u00a0 She used to be a pretty big deal.\u00a0 I\u2019m talking traveling the world, recording songs with symphonies, and hearing herself on the radio big\u2026\u00a0 But then, she suddenly stopped performing.\u00a0 Everyone has\u00a0a theory about what happened, but no one knows the real story.\u00a0 Now that Lucy\u2019s younger brother has a new teacher \u2014 because the former teacher dropped dead in the middle of a lesson \u2014 Lucy is starting to deal with her feelings about the whole situation, partly in hopes that she can help her brother avoid the burnout she experienced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let me just start off by saying that I can\u2019t imagine not loving anything written by Sara Zarr.\u00a0 All of her stories [see also Story of a Girl, Sweethearts, and How to Save a Life] are just so compelling, and her characters so realistic that I become very quickly attached.\u00a0 Finishing one of her books … Continue reading The Lucy Variations by Sara Zarr<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-young-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-chrissie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}