By its Cover: The Family Tree by Carole Cadwalldr
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You are required, almost be natural law, to be attracted to this color red. I am required to do so, anyway. It's of similar hue to the Starbucks holiday cup that looks as if it could make your Starbucks quad latte taste better somehow, just by being red. The tree, too, in its ivory simplicity, seems almost perfect (though I wish it were just a tad larger, so that it became more prominent). That the tree has its roots explosed seems all the more exactly just-so. But the upper third of the design? Well, I suppose I understand the idea of putting the title onto a faded photo (look closely, it's actually a photo there) and then into photo corners, but it seems cliché, especially when pasted diagonally (which makes no real kind of sense), and encourages a sense of cliché in the tree by reflection. Add to that the flying bird (a dove?), and the jacket nearly crumbles.
But the base is solid enough to save this jacket. A solid, unframed author's name at the bottom. That color red. I suppose this red could easily and quickly be overused. I imagine a shelf full of utterly red covers would invoke suicide among book buyers (or worse, people who don't buy books). But once in awhile it just seems necessary. And I'm glad to see it here.
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