Winner of the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation's Citation for Fiction.
An eleven-year-old heroine tells her unforgettable story with honesty, perceptivity, humor, and unselfconscious heroism.
-The honesty of thought and eye and feeling and word ---Eudora Welty; -A lovely, breathtaking, sometimes heart-wrenching first novel.
---Walker Percy.
A LITERARY GUILD SELECTION.
