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<p>told From The Perspective Of Meg, A Precocious Thirteen-year-old Who Is Part Nymph, Part Young Woman, Little Jordan Recounts A Series Of Unusual Events - A Death, An Attempted Suicide, A Mother's Disastrous Affair, A Young Girl's First Kiss - That Resonate, And Finally Coalesce, In The Reader's Mind. Marly Youmans Conveys With Elegance And Economy The Unpredictable Tragedies And Subtle Oddities That Hover Above A Small Southern Town, One Special Summer. As You Tumble Through The Smells And Sounds Of The Season - Mown Hay, Wet Grass, A Search Party's Flashlights Scanning A Dark Field - You Come To Realize That This Could Be Your Town, An Otherwise Ordinary Town, But One That Harbors Deep Secrets - For Even The Ordinary Teems Underneath With Strange Happenings.</p><h3>publishers Weekly</h3><p>a 13-year-old Girl's Summer Of Self-discovery In A Rural Southern Town Unfolds In Impressively Graceful Prose In This Poignant First Novel. Meg's Summer Begins Traumatically When She Stumbles Upon A Dead Three-year-old Girl Along The Banks Of The Little Jordan River. Isidore, The Missing Infant's Grief-crazed, Pregnant Mother, Attempts Suicide; But She Later Recovers, And Meg Helps Deliver He

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Author

Marly Youmans

Publisher

David R. Godine, Publisher

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9781567920291

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.64 / 5 (41 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14