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Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020
BELFAIR
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“Author turns Belfair into .
By Isabella Breda
isabeI/a@masoncounty. com
There’s a road Called Elfendahl Pass, and
you’re driving on that road it looks like
it’s from a fairy tale,” author Akilah J efl'ery
said. “Especially when the light hits the trees, in a
certain way it has a mystical feel.”
J effery’s first children’s novel “Wilda Silva, Secret
Keeper,” published this fall, was inspired by the-mys-
tique of Tahuya.
“It’s about this 11-year-old girl — she’s a flutist
and she also plays a piccolo so she’s a talented mu-
sician, and she is the daughter of a single parent,”
Jeffery said. “They move to Belfair to the woods
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relate to and as this girl was drawn to the woods
she gets entangled in a battle between fairy king-
doms.”
The book has already received widespread sup-
port from community members in the Belfair com-
munity network Facebook page. Some have already
purchased the book and begun reading.
“My boyfriend asked me [about the book] last
. night. I said ‘Oh, it’s a book for really middle school
kids and he was like looking at me’ and he goes, are
you enjoying it? I said ‘I really am,’ ” Belfair Safe-
way employee Darcie Kiser Kanouse said. “[Jefi'ery]
does a really good job describing and explaining the V
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a fairy tale
characters and the locations and the fairy world that
she’s talking about and so it’s fun. I can actually
imagine what [she’s] talking about and the illustra-
tions are beautiful.”
Kiser Kanouse said the illuStrations bring the
book to life.
“The illustrations are beautiful — and I like how
she incorporates the main characters going ‘I need
to draw this before I forget it’ and then there’s this
gorgeous drawing,” she said. -
The book isn’t all fantasy, however, Jeffery said.
Themes of multiculturalism, struggles with addic-
tion and general hardship are embedded throughout
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