{"id":12587,"date":"2022-04-23T10:20:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-23T15:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=12587"},"modified":"2022-04-21T10:42:31","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T15:42:31","slug":"t-is-for-trix-family-secrets-a-constellation-of-roses-by-miranda-asebedo-ya-book-review-a2z","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=12587","title":{"rendered":"T is for Trix, family secrets & A CONSTELLATION OF ROSES, by Miranda Asebedo (YA book review) #A2Z"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Thieving is a gift,
all that Trix has now
since Mom has gone again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Running away from that foster home<\/a> wasn’t her best idea, but Trixie knows that if drug-addicted Mom is coming back, she’ll come to this cheap motel – exactly where her social worker finds the 17-year-old and takes her to relatives on her dad’s side, a family she never knew about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her aunt Mia bakes amazing pies, almost magical Lucky Lime, Never-Lonely Lemon – all the McCabe women have some kind of gift, according to her great-aunt. Eventually her very quiet teen cousin Ember will tell Trix about her gift, maybe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What’s a streetwise teen with a gift for undetectable theft going to do in this tiny Kansas country town? Live with her aunt and graduate from high school – or go to prison! Okay\u2026 but Trix missed so much school that it’ll take two years to finish now!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She’s sketched since she could hold a stolen pencil, so art class is fine (artistic just like her late father, folks say), and some of the students are okay, like Jasper who helps with pie deliveries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How did Jasper’s brother die last year?
Why does everyone in Rocksaw have a different story of how her dad died?
What future does her great-aunt see in Trix’s palm? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Putting down roots like the climbing roses at the McCabe house or blowing away with the drifters in the city – Trix thinks and thinks\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What paranormal gift would you choose, if you knew it was in control?
**kmm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book info<\/strong>: A Constellation of Roses \/ Miranda Asebedo. Harper Teen, hardcover 2019, paperback 2021. [author site<\/a>] [publisher site<\/a>] Personal collection; cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thieving is a gift, all that Trix has now since Mom has gone again. Running away from that foster home wasn’t her best idea, but Trixie knows that if drug-addicted Mom is coming back, she’ll come to this cheap motel – exactly where her social worker finds the 17-year-old and takes her to relatives on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,41],"tags":[10,90,124,75,11,182,5,70,37,16,18,40,43,238,39,38,27,49,184,15,9,21,35,33,3],"class_list":["post-12587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-paranormal","tag-a2z","tag-abandonment","tag-art","tag-brothers","tag-communication","tag-cooking","tag-coping","tag-crime","tag-death","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-fathers","tag-growing-up","tag-kansas","tag-love","tag-magic","tag-medical","tag-memories","tag-mothers","tag-relationships","tag-school","tag-self-image","tag-surprises","tag-survival","tag-teens"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12587"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12900,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12587\/revisions\/12900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}