From the Longing Orchard History_Gift_Guide Face the Music offers a

Face the Music offers a moving portrait of an extraordinary life

I am young

World War I is raging overseas

Now she must compete for a spot against kids who’ve known about magic their whole lives

From the Longing Orchard History_Gift_Guide Face the Music offers aEighteen year old Sonya Hudson has been gripped by phobia since she was thirteen. What would make navigating the world so difficult for this budding visual artist? When the story opens, she lives with her mother and her sister in a suburb in New York in the late 1970s. The narrative carries us back through her childhood, where she struggles with the familys frequent moving and with her parents increasingly fraught marriage. Lingering at the periphery