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Galinda: A Charmed Childhood (Large Print)

by Gregory Maguire

Before Glinda, there was Galinda

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    #1 New York Times bestselling author

    The source describes Gregory Maguire as a #1 New York Times bestselling author.

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Before Glinda, there was Galinda

Set before Galinda’s familiar place in the Oz story, this origin tale looks to her childhood and the circumstances behind her transformation into Glinda. The youngest child in a once-prosperous family, she grows up pampered yet overlooked, with dance competitions offering a route to distinction. Meanwhile, resentment from local merchants gathers around her family’s business practices, and her father works to navigate the pressures on him. These threads place Galinda’s personal ambitions alongside the household’s precarious standing. As a large-print sister volume to Elphie, the book adds another childhood perspective to Gregory Maguire’s fantasy world.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in the origins of Glinda and her earlier identity as Galinda.
  • Readers following Gregory Maguire’s Oz books, including Elphie.
  • Readers seeking adult epic fantasy in a large-print edition.

Themes

Childhood and identityFamily status and financial hardshipSocial resentment and business rivalryAmbition and self-understanding

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Book overview

#1 New York Times bestselling author of Wicked Gregory Maguire shares the eagerly awaited origin story of Galinda, the pink-clad, effervescent, and popular favorite character in this sister volume to Elphie.

Who was Glinda the Good Witch before she floated down in her bubble to greet Dorothy? Who was Glinda before she became Elphaba Thropp's magnetic and popular roommate at Shiz University?

Well, before then, she was Galinda. With a "ga."

The youngest of four children in a high-born family down on their luck, Galinda is both pampered and ignored. Her natural grace promises to elevate her in the district dance competitions--but these efforts distract her from seeing the growing resentments of local merchants who disapprove of her family's business strategies. Enmired in the self-satisfactions and unnamed timidities of childhood, Galinda finds in herself neither canniness nor the need to cultivate it. However, as her father deftly pivots around the snares and nets laid for him by his competitors, Galinda begins to dance toward a life that might lift her above her proud, if hardscrabble, childhood.

Galinda reveals the girl behind the bubbly, shallow clich

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