READING CLUB WITH Annabel Pitcher

el martes, 3 de julio, a las 20:30 hours a new session of the Santa Eulària des Riu Library Reading Club takes place, the oldest of the Pitiusas, With a reading of Annabel Pitcher: My sister lives on the mantelpiece.

"I imagine that my family was happy one day". A phrase that is not difficult to understand when the protagonist, Jamie, a child of 10 years, explains us that Rose (your sister) He died in a terrorist attack in London, On September 9, After the outbreak of several bombs. Since then, Everything has gone bad: His parents have separated and his sister Jasmine has dyed pink hair and now wears a nose piercing. Really, What is on the chimney shelf is an urn with Rose's ashes, In Dad's house (Jamie and Jas's father).

Five years have passed since Rose's death and his parents have failed to overcome pain and it seems that Jasmine is not. The family has come down. But in all that time Jamie has not shed a single tear. For him Rose, whose ashes rest on the chimney shelf, It is nothing more than a distant memory. You are much more interested in your Roger cat, The Spiderman shirt that they have given him for his birthday or that his father does not find out that he has become friends with a Pakistani Muslim girl. One day, Seeing on television an announcement looking for young talents who know how to sing, It is convinced that this can make things change and that the whole family can get ahead.

What would have happened the day his sister Rose died if his parents had not gone to Trafalgar Square? What would have happened if Rose had been an obedient daughter and would not have approached the bin where the bomb exploded? Pero, Once an event has happened, The series of consequences that follow are inevitable and difficult to predict. The rupture that follows the death of a loved one will establish a before and after.

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