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Title	:	A Fistful of Sky (LaZelle #1)
Author	:	Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 368 pages
Published	:	May 25th 2004 by Ace (first published November 5th 2002)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Urban Fantasy. Young Adult. Fiction. Magic. Paranormal

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The LaZelle family of southern California has a secret: they can do magic. Real magic. As a teenager, a LaZelle undergoes "the Transition' —a severe illness that will either kill him or leave him with magical powers. If he's lucky, he gains a talent like shape-changing or wish-granting. If he's unlucky, he never experiences Transition. If he's especially unlucky, he undergoes Transition late, which increases his chances of dying. And if he survives, he will bear the burden of a dark, dangerous magic: the ability to cast only curses. And curse he must, for when a LaZelle doesn't use his magic, it kills him.In Nina Kiriki Hoffman's A Fistful of Sky, Gypsum LaZelle is unique among her brothers and sisters: she has not undergone Transition. She resigns herself to a mundane, magic-bereft existence as a college student. Then one weekend, when her family leaves her home alone, she becomes gravely ill... — Cynthia Ward

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Original Title:	A Fistful of Sky (LaZelle, #1)
ISBN:	0441011772 (ISBN13: 9780441011773)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	LaZelle #1
Characters:	Opal LaZelle, Gypsum LaZelle
Literary Awards:	Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee for Adult Literature (2003)

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Although she makes no overt connection (that I noticed), the LaZelle family in 'A Fistful of Sky' is extremely similar to the magical family in her other novel, 'The Thread the Binds the Bones,' and I'd assume that Hoffman intends them to be cousins, of a sort.However, I think that 'Fistful of Sky' is the more successful novel. It deals with the plight of Gyp, a young woman who, in addition to dealing with the issues of a loving yet controlling family and the 'normal' traumas of dating,

I somewhat liked this book but found it disturbing too. The Mother is a sort of a monster. She uses her powers to tie her children so close to her they can't even think of leaving home. The scene where she nearly kills her daughter trying to force her to lose weight and become 'acceptably' slim is horrifying. Then the family just moves on and never addresses why the hell the Mom did it and what it says about her as a person and can she be helped.I also found the ending sort of petered out. If

I've spent a good deal of time trying to come to terms with the feelings I have for this book. On the one hand, I find the characterizations intriguing and off-putting by turns and the entire idea of the story to be very, very interesting. But that's all I enjoy from this book. The idea and the concept. A Fistful of Sky is about a young woman long resigned to her fate as the "normal" child of a magical family (aside from her normal father), but this is all turned upside down after her twentieth

Gypsum LaZelle was born into a family of magic users living in Southern California; her brothers and sisters came into their powers during what the family calls a "transition" in their teens, but Gyp is in her twenties, hasn't transitioned yet, and thinks she never will. When she comes down with a mysterious illness, though, she comes into her magic...but it's not what she or her family expected. Hoffman examines issues of identity, family, and the responsibilities of power, with a sympathetic

Throughout this entire book, I felt compelled to keep reading, continuously waiting for that big "thing" to happen. It never did. And yet I still enjoyed the read. The ending was a little flat. But it wasn't so bad that I regretted the time spent reading the book. A very interesting writer. I may have to read more by her just to see if all of her books are the same.

Hoffman's writen a lot of great stuff, but I feel like this the weakest I've read by her by a pretty wide margin. If you haven't read this yet, go check out one of her others instead (A Red Heart of Memories, The Thread That Binds the Bones, The Silent Strength of Stones, many of her short stories are really great too, with my personal favorite being the relatively obscure "Flotsam"). If you read this one and enjoyed it... then also go check out her other stuff, because it's even better.

I love just about everything I've read by Nina (and I've read all but her very earliest stories). This visit with the LaZelle family was really wanted. Having encountered the family a few times in short stories, the LaZelle clan is a nice change from the folks at Chapel Hollow and their extended clans.I conned... er convinced my boss to read the book -- he didn't get the ending. I sent a copy to my sister in Texas and Mary, Shirley and Tyler all loved it-- in revenge for making fun of me for