Praise for Black and Blue, by Cathy Galvin:

The novelist David Almond writes,


"...the book is wonderful. So beautiful and moving. I feel so many connections between your work and mine - family, grief, childhood, angels, birds, the language and structures of Catholicism. The impulse to make sense of our catholic heritage and our childhoods, to deal with them honestly, to make a language that can work as art, to turn our family stories into things of beauty. Black and Blue is a gorgeous sacramental thing...