Jesse Hassinger's Reviews> Pearly Everlasting

This lovely tale of a girl and her bear-cub brother is a delight. Though not without its share of sorrow, “Pearly Everlasting” remains light and true at heart. A cross between Dickens and Twain in the New Brunswick logging camps of the Great Depression, Tammy Armstrong has written a wonderful tall tale to go alongside Huckleberry and Pip, Tom and Oliver. Her prose is beautiful, even though it slips from time to time feeling the need to move the story along rather than basking in its vibrancy, and the adventures are, indeed, thrilling.