IN ZANESVILLE: A NOVEL
By: beard, Jo Ann
The beguiling fourteen-year-old narrator of IN
ZANESVILLE is a late bloomer. She is used to flying under the radar-a sidekick,
a third wheel, a marching band dropout, a disastrous babysitter, the kind of
girl whose Eureka moment is the discovery that "fudge" can't be said with an
English accent. Luckily, she has a best friend, a similarly undiscovered girl
with whom she shares the everyday adventures of a 1970s American girlhood,
incidents through which a world is revealed, and character is forged. In time,
their friendship is tested-- by their families' claims on them, by a clique of
popular girls who stumble upon them as if they were found objects, and by the
first, startling, subversive intimations of womanhood. With dry wit and piercing
observation, Jo Ann Beard shows us that in the seemingly quiet streets of
America's innumerable Zanesvilles is a world of wonders, and that within the
souls of the awkward and the overlooked often burns something radiant and
unforgettable. TitlePeek
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