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Jul 21, 2020
If you're a fan of comedy, coming-of-age tales and magical realism, James and the Giant Peach is a Roald Dahl masterpiece you will enjoy. A humble and youthful James is submerged in an English town with overbearing, helicopter aunts who amuse themselves with their sarcasm, wit and taunting. He is ridiculed and bullied psychologically somewhat mercilessly by these two women who appear outwardly and socially to care for him yet treat him with disdain, loathing and as though he is a second-class citizen, as some readers may argue. James is able to be freed from the mental stonewall his aunts have created when he stumbles upon an enormous peach that guides him to his realms of imagination and to an enchanting land where is free, safe and welcomed with open arms; in the same vein escaping the vitriol of his miserable and obnoxious aunts. James and the Giant Peach is an amalgam novel that will have you laughing, crying and wondering in one sitting and perhaps will have you develop an affinity for the brilliant, astute writing characteristic of Roald Dahl, one of the world's most beloved youth and young adult authors. - Review Written by Danielle