How about a book where almost nothing happens? A book in which a ten-year old boy is simply loved? Loved by his widowed mother and his three bachelor uncles, Jim the Boy grows up in a small town in the South where the big news might be electricity finally coming, or going to the beach [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘childhood’
February 2, 2008
The Girls: A Novel by Lori Lansens
The Girls is a novel about conjoined twins born during a tornado… that manages not to be neither cute nor freakish, but rather a deep, moving reflection on what autonomy and self-direction mean when you share a body with someone else. Very satisfying story including the ending. Read it!
