Job Sanstrum sees sound in colour; the hum of the vacuum cleaner creates a soothing glass egg in his hands, the resonant ring of a wet finger run around a wine glass generates hues of merging pastel colours like the shifting gloss of northern lights that grace the sky of his home town Godsfinger, Alberta. This is a community of curious characters, and a town where crop circles occur, birds drop out of the sky, and a duck waddles around in a nappy. Still, Job is an outsider, and when his bullying pastor brother, Jacob, returns with his wife and troubled son to claim the family farmhouse, Job is forced out of his home into further solitude. In the diner Liv serves Job an extra large slice of blueberry pie, her bangles jingling, while Christal stands in stilletto's flipping burgers; Dithy squirts him with her water gun and instructs him to get out more. When his ability to see sound begins to fade and his one comfort is lost, Job realises he must look beyond himself and his solitary existence to find happiness and acceptance. In this exquisitely written novel Gail Anderson-Dargatz entwines her ability to make us understand and love characters, with her power to evoke the beauty in the minutiae of life and the tremendous natural forces of The Rhinestone Button's rural backdrop.

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Oooh really looking forward to reading this - the cover and title really drew me to it first. When I was little my granny had a 'button box' and I used to love sorting out all the buttons into colours and styles, still love buttons!

Enjoyed this book angellica, thanks for sharing. Just finished it in time! Will be releasing into the wild shortly as part of firegirl's 4 Elements Challenge March 2008.

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Couldn't resist leaving this one by the buttons in the button aisle amongst its friends! Please make a journal entry if you find it - thanks!

No. 58 in Firegirl's 4 Elements Challeneg March 2008 - A RhineSTONE Button

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No. 40 in fotomiep's All In The Family Challenge - A Rhinsestone Button by Gail AnderSON Dargatz

After my initial confusion as to why there was a book with a post-it note on the cover in the aisle I was tidying at work, I had to chuckle at the thought that led it to be left for the next reader on the button fixture.
The book was not one I would have ever bought to read, but having stumbled across it my intrigue led me to read it, as did my mum. I fairly light read with a novel concept in synaesthesia being introduced in the book; a highly recommended holiday read.
A Rhinestone Button is about to travel to another part of the country...

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After my initial confusion as to why there was a book with a post-it note on the cover in the aisle I was tidying at work, I had to chuckle at the thought that led it to be left for the next reader on the button fixture.
The book was not one I would have ever bought to read, but having stumbled across it my intrigue led me to read it, as did my mum. A fairly light, yet accessible, read with a novel concept in synaesthesia being introduced in the book; a highly recommended holiday read.
A Rhinestone Button is about to travel to another part of the country...

After my initial confusion as to why there was a book with a post-it note on the cover in the aisle I was tidying at work, I had to chuckle at the thought that led it to be left for the next reader on the button fixture.
The book was not one I would have ever bought to read, but having stumbled across it my intrigue led me to read it, as did my mum. A fairly light, yet accessible, read with a novel concept in synaesthesia being introduced in the book; a highly recommended holiday read.
A Rhinestone Button is about to travel to another part of the country...