Laddie

The youngest of eleven children arrives into a family already overflowing, and from her first breath she is almost unwanted. But then there is Laddie, the brother who loves her best, the one who makes her feel she exists. In a house always full of noise and need, she is the quiet observer, finding refuge in the natural world beyond the farm: the animals, the seasons, the wild places where she can be alone and whole. With sharp, funny tenderness, little sister tells us what it means to grow up in a crowd, to be the one who almost wasn't needed, to find your one person in a chaos of siblings. This is childhood's particular ache rendered with wit and grace: the loneliness of being overlooked in a full house, and the way one person's love can make a whole world.