Come, Thou Tortoise by Jessica Grant. “A great, unintended airport discovery. A really offbeat story that features an opinionated tortoise and an IQ-challenged narrator who find themselves in the middle of a life-changing mystery. Audrey (a.k.a. Oddly) Flowers is living quietly in Oregon with Winnifred, her tortoise, when she finds out her dear father has been knocked into a coma back in Newfoundland. Despite her fear of flying, she goes to him, but not before she reluctantly dumps Winnifred with her unreliable friends. Poor Winnifred. When Audrey disarms an Air Marshal en route to St. John’s we begin to realize there’s something odd about her (more than keeping a tortoise). And we soon know that Audrey’s quest to discover who her father really was – and reunite with Winnifred – will be an adventure like no other. May be one of the only books you read this year with perspectives from a tortoise!”
