| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
292 pages ; 22 cm |
| Summary |
The first novel from poet and playwright Lodato is a stunning portrait of grief and youthful imagination. Narrator Mathilda Savitch is an adolescent girl negotiating life after the death of her older sister, Helene. Her parents, especially her alcoholic mother, are too traumatized to give her the comfort she needs, so she lives in an elaborate world of her own invented logic. Mathilda evaluates sex, religion and national tragedy in language that is constantly surprising, amusing and often heartbreaking. She speaks with the bold matter-of-factness of a child, but also reveals a deep understanding of life far beyond her years: "I wondered why god would unlock a door just to show you emptiness," she says. "It made me wonder if maybe he was in cahoots with infinity." |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR UG 4.0 10.0 133082. |
| Subject |
Teenage girls -- Fiction.
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Sisters -- Death -- Fiction.
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| ISBN |
9780374204006 alkaline paper |
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0374204004 alkaline paper |
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