A Pair of Them
In early 1900s America, an unlikely friendship blooms between two girls who should have nothing in common. Bonny-Gay is the pampered daughter of wealth, while Mary Jane is a hunchbacked girl from the wrong side of town, mocked by others and resigned to a life of invisibility. When circumstance brings them together, Bonny-Gay must choose between the comfort of her privileged world and the radical act of seeing someone everyone else ignores. Their friendship becomes a quiet kind of rebellion, a test of whether compassion can survive where cruelty is easier. Raymond writes with the gentle clarity of a storyteller who understands that the deepest lessons children need are often the hardest ones: that kindness requires courage, that seeing someone others dismiss is itself a kind of revolution, and that friendship across impossible distances is worth fighting for.
