Local Girls

by Alice Hofman (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2000

  $20.97

  From the New York Times best-selling author of The Dovekeepers, Alice Hoffmanis at her haunting, thought-provoking best with these interconnected stories about a Long Island family, the Samuelsons, and the lessons in survival and transformation that life brings to every family... Pulls the reader in effortlessly...Hoffman has the power to make you really laugh and really cry. --USA Today Moving and deadpan funny...Epiphanies about passion, pain, and resiliency induce smiles and shivers in equal measure. --Entertainment Weekly

• Used

  Paperback
  2000

  $3.38

  Coming from the author of Here on Earth , this is a funny and touching, sharp and tender, irresistible chronicle of a family coming apart at the seams, and of a young girl learning how to survive. Told from Gretel Samuelson's sly and knowing perspective, Local Girls charts her progress as she navigates from childhood to the brink of womanhood, picking her way through the tragedies and absurdities of everyday life in a family which is rocked by divorce and disaster, bad judgement and fierce attachments. Her father has left them, her chain-smoking mother Franny is falling apart and refuses to learn the simple lessons of life, her aunt Margot is in love with romance, her grandmother is talking to God, her perfect brother has fatal flaws, and even her best friend Jill - blonde, enviable and beautiful - is moving too fast into the unfathomable world of women.