![]() ![]() Viviane, as a child, befriends Jack Griffith, a neighborhood kid, and as teenagers, they fall in love with one another. Connor dies of a heart-attack not long after, leaving Emilienne to run the bakery. She and Connor then move to Seattle, where several months later, Emilienne gives birth to their only child, a daughter named Viviane. Emilienne promises him one child if he will get her as far away from New York as possible. As a result, at the age of 20, she marries 31-year-old baker, Connor Lavender, who had previously believed he was not marriageable material due to his deformed leg as a result of childhood polio. Emilienne struggles with love in her youth, and the deaths of her three siblings and both parents leave her shaken and wanting to leave New York. Ava’s maternal family originates from France to settle in New York, including her grandmother, Emilienne. ![]() “The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender” is a young adult fantasy novel by Leslye Walton, which recounts the family history, and early life of Ava Lavender, a girl born with wings. ![]()
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