The Silver Star, Jeannette Walls has written a heartbreaking and redemptive novel about an intrepid girl who challenges the injustice of the adult worldâa triumph of imagination and storytelling.
It is 1970 in a small town in California. âBeanâ Holladay is twelve and her sister, Liz, is fifteen when their artistic mother, Charlotte, a woman who âfound something wrong with every place she ever lived,â takes off to find herself, leaving her girls enough money to last a month or two. When Bean returns from school one day and sees a police car outside the house, she and Liz decide to take the bus to Virginia, where their Uncle Tinsley lives in the decaying mansion thatâs been in Charlotteâs family for generations.
An impetuous optimist, Bean soon discovers who her father was, and hears many stories about why their mother left Virginia in the first place. Because money is tight, Liz and Bean start babysitting and doing office work for Jerry Maddox, foreman of the mill in townâa big man who bullies his workers, his tenants, his children, and his wife. Bean adores her whip-smart older sisterâinventor of word games, reader of Edgar Allan Poe, nonconformist. But when school starts in the fall, itâs Bean who easily adjusts and makes friends, and Liz who becomes increasingly withdrawn. And then something happens to Liz.
Jeannette Walls, supremely alert to abuse of adult power, has written a deeply moving novel about triumph over adversity and about people who find a way to love each other and the world, despite its flaws and injustices.
Categories:
- Literature & Fiction
- Genre Fiction
- Family Life
- Genre Fiction
Publisher : Scribner
Author : Walls, Jeannette
Language : English
Edition : First Edition
Published :2013-06-11
Number Of Pages : 288
Binding : hardcover
ISBN-10 : 1451661509
ISBN-13 : 9781451661507
Item weight : 1.19 lb
Dimensions : 1.02 in x 6.14 in x 9.13 in
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