Miles from Nowhere is a tough, hard novel about a teenage runaway who goes through all the trials we’re afraid teenage runaways must go through: she gets beaten up; she sleeps on the street; she sleeps in abandoned apartments or sleazy motels (not much better than the street!); she works as a “hostess”; she steals; [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘teenagers’
January 27, 2009
More than you Know by Beth Gutcheon
More Than You Know is the account of two doomed love stories taking place in the same Maine village a hundred years apart, the more recent story featuring a ghost from the first one, a ghost that is visible only to the lovers in the second story, no one else. Why they are not promptly shut [...]
April 13, 2008
Gardens of Water by Alan Drew
Gardens of Water is a doomed love story between a convervative Turkish very young woman and an American teenager whose father has served as a school principal and aid worker in Turkey for many years. Despite valiant efforts to make it sound authentic, complete with a pronunciation guide to Turkish (who knew there would be letters whose [...]
April 13, 2008
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
Out Stealing Horses are the memories of a 60-something who settles in an isolated farm after his wife’s death after a life in the city. The farm is close to where he spent summers with his father shortly after WWII, lost a friend, lost his dad, and learned about his dad’s resistance past and other [...]
March 26, 2008
Mona in the Promised Land by Gish Jen
Having read and loved The Love Wife by the same author, I picked up Mona in the Promised Land for another long plane ride and I wasn’t disappointed, although the depth and complexity of The Love Wife is simply not there. Mona in the Promised Landis the funny, lighthearted, and not always believable story of a [...]
