During the six days it takes Sal's paternal grandparents to drive
her west to Idaho in time for her mother's birthday, she tells them
about her friend Phoebe - a story that, the 13-year-old comes to
realize, in many ways parallels her own: Each girl had a mother who
left home without warning. The mystery of Phoebe's more
conventional mother's disappearance and its effects on her family
and eventual explanation unfold as the journey, with its own
offbeat incidents, proceeds; meanwhile, in Sal's intricate
narrative, the tragic events surrounding her mother's flight are
also gradually revealed. After Sal fell from a tree, her mother
carried her back to the house; soon after, she bore a stillborn
child. Slowyly, the love between Sal's parents, her mother's
inconsolable grief, and Sal's life since her departure emerge; last
to surface are the painful facts that Sal has been most reluctant
to face. Creech, an American who has published novels in Britain,
fashions characters with humor and sensitivity, but Sal's poignant
story would have been stronger without quite so many remarkable
coincidences or such a tidy sum of epiphanies at the end. Still,
its revelations make a fine yarn. (Kirkus Reviews)
Salamanca Hiddle is travelling across the United States with her eccentric grandparents. On her journey, she tells the story of her friend Phoebe, a girl of wild imaginings. But beneath Sal's funny anecdotes is the deeper story of Sal's mother, who left home and never returned.
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