Eden A Novel【電子書籍】[ Olympia Vernon ]

＜p＞＜strong＞A "profoundly raw and gripping" novel of a young girl in Mississippi struggling with poverty and a troubled family ( ＜em＞The Baltimore Sun＜/em＞) ＜em＞.＜/em＞＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞In Mississippi, fourteen-year-old Maddy Dangerfield has just impulsively drawn a naked woman on the pages of Genesis in bright red lipstick during Sunday service. The community is scandalized, and her devout, long-suffering mother's response is to force her to spend weekends nursing her Aunt Pipーan outcast who lives on the edge of town.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Now Maddy moves between her own homeーwhich she shares with her hard-working, Bible-reading mother and her drinking, gambling, womanizing fatherーand Commitment Road, where she serves as caregiver for her aunt, who is dying of breast cancer. Grievances from the past have left Pip estranged from the family, but as Maddy spends time with her and her eccentric neighbor, Fat, she begins to discover the exhilaration of speaking your own mind and living life on your own term．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る