Plain Jane

by Joan Barfoot

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Jane Smith is a library clerk living alone in a middle-sized city and keeping her life under careful control. Then, inexplicably, she decides to correspond with a convict in prison, and her her life is changed forever.

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I found this to be a quite good book with some interesting insights into what it might mean to be a late-twenties single woman. The story is told by a third party observer who speaks directly to the reader and I'm not sure if I'm that comfortable with this style of narration. (

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oldblack | May 22, 2011 |

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Jane Smith is a library clerk living alone in a middle-sized city and keeping her life under careful control. Then, inexplicably, she decides to correspond with a convict in prison, and her her life is changed forever.

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