Location(s): Vermont
Genre(s): Fiction
Era(s): 1925-1945
An atmospheric historical novel set in small-town Vermont, where 19-year-old Faby lives with her close-knit French family, Maman Aurore, Papa, Mémère, and sister Josephine.
The story traces an eventful year in Faby’s young life when she meets and marries vaudeville performer Louis Kittell.
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An Intriguing Story of REAL People
What I liked best about this novel is that it could have been a stereotypical “mean male chauvinist versus innocent female victim” morality tale, but it was not. You see it far too often — the “typical male” screws...
Every family has secrets, old feuds and disagreements, but not many have a past like Faby’s. Telling Sonny, by Elizabeth Gauffreau, is a novel of inter-generational memories and a past that embodies every little boy’s dream—running away to join...
Atmospheric and beautifully-written tale
It’s 1925, and 19-year-old Faby is living in Enosburg, Vermont with her close-knit French family, Maman Aurore, Papa, Mémère, and sister Josephine, when the vaudeville show comes to town. Faby is entranced by the...
Unique and well-defined characters. An excellent read.
Faby Gauthier, the protagonist of Telling Sonny, grows up in a small town in Vermont in the 1920’s, a few miles south of the Canadian border. Both English and French are spoken in Faby’s...
Beautifully written atmospheric tale
Faby Gauthier, the protagonist of Telling Sonny, grows up in a small town in Vermont in the 1920’s, a few miles south of the Canadian border. Both English and French are spoken in Faby’s...
A trip to small-time vaudeville
I finished this book in record time, trying (and failing) to slow down so the story would last longer. This novel transported me to the whimsical world of the vaudeville show circuit. During this...
A beautifully written & evocative story I will remember for a long time to come
Telling Sonny is the sad, wonderful tale of Faby Gauthier, a small-town Vermont girl just coming of age who is seduced by a smooth-talking vaudeville actor whose stage name is Slim White. After he...
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