On Angel's Wings

Violet is the girl who sits in the window. Every day, she watches the children play in the street below while her own body keeps her apart from them. The other children call her names. The adults shake their heads at their cruelty. But behind the window glass, Violet sees more than anyone realizes, and feels even more than she sees. This is the story of what happens when a community must confront its own kindness and its own cowardice, and of the question that has no easy answer: how do you protect a child from a world that might not want her? Louisa Lilias Plunket Greene wrote this book over a century ago, but it remains piercingly modern in its refusal to offer simple comfort. It is for anyone who has ever felt different, anyone who has loved someone who is, and anyone who has wondered whether kindness is enough when it comes too late.