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Title	:	Come, Thou Tortoise
Author	:	Jessica Grant
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 412 pages
Published	:	March 10th 2009 by Knopf Canada
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Canada. Contemporary

Come, Thou Tortoise

Jessica Grant

Hardcover | Pages: 412 pages

Rating: 3.94 | 3461 Users | 472 Reviews

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A delightfully offbeat story that features an opinionated tortoise and an IQ-challenged narrator who find themselves in the middle of a life-changing mystery.

Audrey (a.k.a. Oddly) Flowers is living quietly in Oregon with Winnifred, her tortoise, when she finds out her dear father has been knocked into a coma back in Newfoundland. Despite her fear of flying, she goes to him, but not before she reluctantly dumps Winnifred with her unreliable friends. Poor Winnifred.

When Audrey disarms an Air Marshal en route to St. John’s we begin to realize there’s something, well, odd about her. And we soon know that Audrey’s quest to discover who her father really was—and reunite with Winnifred—will be an adventure like no other.

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Original Title:	Come, Thou Tortoise
ISBN:	0307397548 (ISBN13: 9780307397546)
Edition Language:	English URL http://www.randomhouse.ca/books/70531/come-thou-tortoise-by-jessica-grant
Literary Awards:	Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book Award Nominee (2010), Amazon.ca First Novel Award (2009), OLA Evergreen Award (2010)

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Call me crazy, but I enjoy a plot. It doesn't have to be deep or life-changing, but a plot is required. You can imagine my joy when discovered that this book did, in fact, have a plot and it began on page 362. Apparently this book is listed as both humour and mystery, yet it was neither. Audrey spent a lot of the book reflecting on her life at 7 years old yet, when she wrote as an adult, her voice remained child-like. There was no character development. There were chapters where her pet tortoise

this is one odd little book. and i mean that as a compliment.i love that she loves corkscrews because they embrace the essence of both a ballerina and a weapon. think about it.i love that she smells soap and runs to buy fudge.i love that she knows snowflakes are prisms, and that she has a snowshovel that makes imprints of a flower with every load of snow she heaves from the sidewalk to the bank. i love that the tortise gets a voice. i am slightly disconcerned that i relate more to the tortise's

PUB. DATE: February 2010GENRE: Literary FictionPLOT SUMMARY: Audrey grew up in St. John's Newfoundland but a brief romance led her to Portland, Oregon, where she is living when she finds out that her father has had a coma. She returns home in a hurry only to find out that her father has already died. She and her uncle, who has lived with her and her father since she was young, grieve the loss and try to put their lives back together. Also, Audrey inadvertently investigates an old family mystery.

Call me crazy, but I enjoy a plot. It doesn't have to be deep or life-changing, but a plot is required. You can imagine my joy when discovered that this book did, in fact, have a plot and it began on page 362. Apparently this book is listed as both humour and mystery, yet it was neither. Audrey spent a lot of the book reflecting on her life at 7 years old yet, when she wrote as an adult, her voice remained child-like. There was no character development. There were chapters where her pet tortoise

This book became one of my favourites of 2010, and if there's one book I would recommend to you right now, it would be this one. Quirky, clever, hilarious, original, poignant, touching, flat-out brilliant all comes to mind in describing Come, Thou Tortoise. It was a random purchase for me, bought on a whim - I didn't know anything about it but I've always loved tortoises and it sounded interesting. Only goes to show how spontaneous book buying, with no research, can reap great rewards!Such a

When I first bought this I actually really bought it cuz it was on sale and it had a turtle on the cover, but the book ended up being alot more complicated and deep then it looks! This book was told in more tan one perspective. Firstly it was told in the perspective of Audrey Flowers. However there were a few chapters where her pet turtle had some insight. Despite how funny that sounds and all the humour thrown in the book you can go from laughing to having a tear in your eye. Audrey herself is

This was an odd read, for me, but that is perfectly fine and I ended up thoroughly charmed by this book. Two unique voices: Audrey, aka 'Oddly', who is odd and strange in a way that most reviewers are calling 'quirky'. But she is also lovable and a very rich character; I just spent a bit too much time wondering if she was supposed to be autistic, maybe some asperger's? But the 'why' of her doesn't really matter, once you just accept that this is who is telling the story. It did mean that if