Friday, October 11, 2019

Cover Lust: We Walked the Sky by Lisa Fiedler

Cover Lust is something that I do every other week where I feature a book cover that I absolutely love!


42729349A stunning, multigenerational story about two teenagers: Victoria, who joins the circus in 1965, and her granddaughter, Callie, who leaves the circus fifty years later.

In 1965 seventeen-year-old Victoria, having just escaped an unstable home, flees to the ultimate place for dreamers and runaways--the circus. Specifically, the VanDrexel Family Circus where, among the lion tamers, roustabouts, and trapeze artists, Victoria hopes to start a better life.

Fifty years later, Victoria's sixteen-year-old granddaughter Callie is thriving. A gifted and focused tightrope walker with dreams of being a VanDrexel high wire legend just like her grandmother, Callie can't imagine herself anywhere but the circus. But when Callie's mother accepts her dream job at an animal sanctuary in Florida just months after Victoria's death, Callie is forced to leave her lifelong home behind.

Feeling unmoored and out of her element, Callie pores over memorabilia from her family's days on the road, including a box that belonged to Victoria when she was Callie's age. In the box, Callie finds notes that Victoria wrote to herself with tips and tricks for navigating her new world. Inspired by this piece of her grandmother's life, Callie decides to use Victoria's circus prowess to navigate the uncharted waters of public high school.

Across generations, Victoria and Callie embrace the challenges of starting over, letting go, and finding new families in unexpected places.


Why did I pick this cover? 
This cover made me want to read this book! It's beautiful and it made me wonder what this book was about. After reading this book I can say that it fits the theme. The book features two different perspectives, fifty years apart. Both are tightrope walkers, but one has just joined the circus and one has just left. I think this is a gorgeous way to show these two perspectives and the colors, from the dark, almost sephia, to the bright blue, are so eye-catching.
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