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Flora and Annie are off to stay with their grandparents for the summer. The girls will travel on their own from Cape Town on the bus, and Flora is proud that their mother has put her in charge. Flora loves lots of things about staying with Ouma and Oupa: swinging on the big old tree in the garden, baking with Ouma, playing with the other children from the neighbourhood. But there's one thing she doesn't like at all ... Nelson, their grandmother's large, red rooster. Little Annie isn't afraid of him, and Flora knows that she shouldn't be either. After all, she's supposed to be the grown-up one! But Flora can't help it - Nelson is scary and glary and he pecks hard. Will she overcome her fear?
One of her moms is pregnant What will this mean for a child who will soon be an older sibling? Her mothers prepare her for the big change in their family, and finally the baby arrives. The girl feels confused and ambivalent, but she grows at last toward happy acceptance of the baby and of her new status in the family.
"[A] touching picaresque journey through the deserts of the west and the landscape of memory."—Washington Post Book World "An almost Tolstoyian insight into the human plight.... A beautiful book."—New York Times Book Review "Elegant and unexpected.... Literature at its best."—Chicago Tribune "A tremendous coup for a first novel, for any novel. Freeman introduces us to an America of transcendental landscapes, cultures like forgotten flowers and festive, fierce cities.... Freeman brings her richest gifts to literature."—The Nation "Purely, simply, beautiful."—Philadelphia Inquirer
From the writer whose voice Carolyn See has characterized as one of
the strangest, most distinguished in American fiction writing today
("There is really nothing to compare her with, except, maybe, the
austere beauty of a Japanese rock garden"), here is a richly
dramatic novel about a woman struggling to make peace with herself
as a mother, a lover, an artist, and a friend. "From the Hardcover edition.
Judith Freeman, aus einer bauerlichen Grossfamilie stammend, erkrankt zu Beginn ihres Studiums psychisch schwer und kommt in die Psychiatrie. Gemass ihrer Devise Ohne Therapie gibt es keine Heilung" kampft sie sich durchs Leben, bis sie endlich die in der Kindheit liegende Ursache ihrer Erkrankung erkennt und genesen kann. Eine authentische und hoffnungsvolle Lebensgeschichte, die unter die Haut geh
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