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Harper Perennial
288 pages
Product Description
<p> After the sudden death of her beloved older sister, thirteen-year-old Nico finds her life on New England's idyllic Mirror Lake irrevocably altered. Left alone to grope toward understanding, she falls into a seductive, dangerous relationship with her sister's boyfriend. Over one haunted summer, Nico faces that life-changing moment when children realize their parents can no longer help them as she experiences the mystery of loss and recovery. Still, for all the darkness at its heart, <i>Goldengrove</i> is radiant with the lightness of summer and charged by the restless sexual tension of adolescence. </p>
Harper Perennial
288 pages
Amazon.com Review
<b>Amazon Best of the Month, September 2008</b>: Author and essayist Francine Prose's novel <i>Goldengrove</i> will be a surprise to readers familiar with her famously razor-sharp dialogue and tough-love attitude towards her memorable characters. In this affecting coming-of-age novel, Prose introduces us to Nico, a chubby thirteen-year old girl who imagines nothing more than keeping her parents at arms length and hanging out with her older sister, Margaret and her charismatic boyfriend during the long summer break. Instead, Nico finds herself navigating the perilous course of mourning after her beloved sister drowns in the lake just beyond the family's home. With little support from her grief-stricken parents, she must come to terms with the tragedy largely on her own. Prose's ability to situate the adult reader within the heart and mind of young Nico is quite remarkable, and verges on the poetic. <i>Goldengrove</i> is a poignant story that prompts us to retrace those often long-forgotten, but monumental early steps towards acceptance and understanding. <i>--Lauren Nemroff</i>