{"id":5561,"date":"2018-07-25T13:13:36","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T17:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/?p=5561"},"modified":"2018-07-25T13:13:36","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T17:13:36","slug":"312gbad-colors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/312gbad-colors\/","title":{"rendered":"312G:Bad Colors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><tt class=\"letterText\"> <\/tt><\/tt><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s from the first person point of view of a teenage girl. She has gone through some trauma; perhaps her dad has recently died? There&#8217;s some kind of new situation in her life. I think she&#8217;s living with her aunts? She was raised by New Age-y, witch-y types. It&#8217;s a realistic novel. Her immediate family are these flakey hippies, who have brought her up to be very superstitious. I think they read Tarot or some kind of divination for a living. She is beset with some problem; maybe she cuts herself? Over the course of the book, she learns to extricate herself from their superstition and magical thinking. They have a particular fixation on colors, with certain colors being good or bad luck. Yellow is very bad; it can&#8217;t be mixed with black. Purple is very significant &amp; has to do with spirituality. The book ends with her on a therapist&#8217;s couch and she notices right away that it&#8217;s one of the &#8220;bad&#8221; colors, but then she reminds herself that that&#8217;s OK, that she&#8217;s going to dispense with this OCD-like fixation on the &#8220;right&#8221; color patterns &amp; not be bound by her family&#8217;s backward ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s from the first person point of view of a teenage girl. She has gone through some trauma; perhaps her dad has recently died? There&#8217;s some kind of new situation in her life. I think she&#8217;s living with her aunts? She was raised by New Age-y, witch-y types. It&#8217;s a realistic novel. Her immediate family [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5561"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5562,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5561\/revisions\/5562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}