Gathering Blue - blog post 1

I recently started reading Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry. The book is kind of the sequel to The Giver, a book I enjoyed when I read it a few years ago. I only started the book a couple days ago and am just to page 12. The book is a little confusing because so far the author has not explained usual parts of the culture and traditions of the people in the book. It is not even clear when the book is meant to take place. As of page 12, I have learned about Kira, the main character, who is a recent orphan. A lot of the early pages are spent describing Kira mourning her mother by camping at her grave. Kira is afraid that she will be kicked out of the village because she was born with a mangled leg and cannot do hard labor. She has no one else in the village that will take care of her and her home was burned down so that the sickness that killed her mother doesn’t spread. She only has one friend, a tyke (child) named Matt. The other women in the village don’t like her and want to take her land from her. She is very scared that they will succeed. The book has been pretty good so far and I am excited to get into it more.