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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Extremely deep. This book was amazing. The author really does an amazing job displaying the emotions attached with the death of a loved one and the confusion a person goes through in order to cope. It was a little creepy at times though but it had to be in order for the story to make sense. (  )princessjaynemiller | May 1, 2009 |   Nico is 13 when her older sister dies in the lake behind their home. Her mother turns to drugs, and she is sure her father is having an affair. Nico and her sister's boyfriend turn to each other. (  )pmlyayakkers | Apr 17, 2009 | The story of a young teenage girl grieving for her older sister. At the end of the school year, the sister drowns and Nico, the main character was the last to see her. The story is of the summer, where she and her family struggle to put their lives back togethier. Not a bad novel, but a little like tv movie where in the end all of them get on with life. A interesting sub plot is the relationship Nico has with the dead sister's boyfriend. (  )michaelbartley | Feb 7, 2009 | A nicely-written book about a young girl and trying to come to terms with her sister's death. The sister's boyfriend is trying to do the same thing, and they end up in a spooky relationship trying to almost resurrect her. The boy's character changed suddenly in the middle, and he became cruel and weird in a way that didn't quite hold my suspension of disbelief. ( )bobbieharv | Feb 5, 2009 | So far so good, I just got this book from the library yesterday. I may read it all weekend. cinamingrl | Jan 23, 2009 | 0.104 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0066214114, Hardcover)At the center of Francine Prose's profoundly moving new novel is a young girl facing the consequences of sudden loss after the death of her sister. As her parents drift toward their own risky consolations, thirteen-year-old Nico is left alone to grope toward understanding and clarity, falling into a seductive, dangerous relationship with her sister's enigmatic boyfriend. Over one haunted summer, Nico must face that life-changing moment when children realize their parents can no longer help them. She learns about the power of art, of time and place, the mystery of loss and recovery. But for all the darkness at the novel's heart, the narrative itself is radiant with the lightness of summer and charged by the restless sexual tension of teenage life. Goldengrove takes its place among the great novels of adolescence, beside Henry James's The Awkward Age and L. P. Hartley's The Go-Between. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:04 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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